A Quote by Octavia Butler

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Octavia Butler

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Ashes Burn First Must Order Own Phoenix Rise

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Octavia Butler
American - Writer
June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Jens Lekman

On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but when a phoenix dies, it's reborn from its own ashes. I related to that.

ASAP Rocky

I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

Bess Myerson

Initially when our foundations are rocked, when we lose our external security, we feel very fragile. In that moment, we have a choice. Am I the Phoenix and rise from the ashes or do I just keep wallowing in the ashes?

Isha Judd

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Khalil Gibran

Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

Ray Bradbury

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Anne Baxter

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland.

Lorna Luft

My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

Lorna Luft

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

Miguel de Cervantes

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

The phoenix must burn to emerge.

Janet Fitch

...... an outlaw gulch, a haven for draft resisters, struggling artists, and drug addicts.....a camp for semi-demented adults.... Venice is like the legendary Phoenix - it always seems to rise again from the ashes.