Phoenix Quotes

• I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Youth
  • Phoenix

• Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Fire
  • Phoenix

• We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area... The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Team

• You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

  

  Lee Hazlewood
  • Giving
  • Fly
  • Thursday

• Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Phoenix

• This is about Phoenix going back to their home court, trying to rally. One win puts things right at the edge again, and we'd have to come back and hold home court, which is a single-game situation. So we know there's a lot of work to be done before we're finished with this thing.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Done

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

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Phoenix

• I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.

  

  Bruce Coville
  • Up
  • Small
  • Grandparents

• I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff.

  

  Katie Leung
  • Amazing
  • Phoenix

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

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Time
  • Die
  • Flames

• It is no accident that our business, The University of Phoenix, is one of the top 50 community-minded companies in America. My father and I are strong believers in the concept of community.

  

  Peter Sperling
  • Business
  • America
  • Father

• The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.

  

  John Donne
  • Die
  • Mysterious
  • Phoenix

• The dream would be to work with my two favorite actors, Daniel Day Lewis and Cate Blanchett. Or playing Joaquin Phoenix's brother in a film. Basically anything where I get to act opposite actors like these; ones who bring a certain caliber to their work and literally morph into the character they are playing.

  

  Drew Fuller
  • Work
  • Character
  • Dream

• Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Glory
  • Phoenix
  • Expires

• 'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.

  

  Jonny Weston
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Day
  • Dreams
  • Socialism

• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pain

• In the late 1960s, Ontario Airport was a throwback to a bygone era. Located 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, the airport served only two carriers, Western and Bonanza. Passengers could catch regional flights to San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, Phoenix and Los Angeles, and that was about it.

  

  Annie Jacobsen
  • Vegas
  • Phoenix

• Phoenix and Las Vegas have grim long-term prospects. On top of oil-and-gas problems, they will have terrible problems with water and the ability to produce food locally. I suppose it shows how delusional the public is, and how our institutional controls have decayed - for instance, lending standards.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Long
  • Food
  • Water

• We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

  

  Pam Muñoz Ryan
  • Life
  • Phoenix

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

  

  Lorna Luft
  • She
  • Mother
  • Phoenix

• 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
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Dying

• It's a difficult world for lots of child actors, and it's difficult to be a teenager under any circumstances. Add to that notoriety and fame, and things can go really wrong. But I had a terrific family and grew up very normal in Phoenix.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• People from the rest of the state tend to hate Phoenix, with that typical resentment of the boroughs and the towns for the big city.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • People
  • Hate
  • City

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