A Quote by Carl Sagan

Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan
American - Scientist
November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.

J. K. Rowling

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?

Francois Le Lionnais

NewSpace, commercial space - whatever you want to call it - is rising, with or without government support. It is rising in West Texas and on the Gulf Coast, in California and on the Virginia coast, and rising from the ashes of the old space program in Florida and in small shops and university labs in a hundred places in between.

Rick Tumlinson

I think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show.

Daniel Mays

This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.

Stan Collymore

'Ashes To Ashes' is a victim of its own success. We started lots of trends. I like to think we had something to do with bringing back the high waist. It's so much more flattering.

Keeley Hawes

Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

Laurent Lamothe

Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

Lafcadio Hearn

'Proximity' features four legends and four rising stars who each bring their own athleticism, thoughts, and experiences in this behind-the-scenes look at modern surfing.

Taylor Steele

Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

Van Jones

Be transparent as wind, be as possible and relentless and dangerous, be what moves things forward without needing to leave a mark, be part of this collection of molecules that begins somewhere unknown and can't help but keep rising. Rising.Rising. Rising.

Eve Ensler

I worked on 'Line of Duty' with Vicky McClure after she'd just finished the last series of 'This Is EnglandI think the great thing about 'Ashes To Ashes' is that it is very much its own show. and I kept nagging her to find out how it ended.

Daniel Mays

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.