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
I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes. Bess Myerson
Society has already told us that poetry is dead. Let's build a funeral pyre out of the desiccated conventions piled around us and watch the ancient, spangle-feathered, unkillable phoenix rise from the ashes. Dana Gioia
I proposed that it be called the "Phoenix National Literary Society" – the word Phoenix signifying that the Irish cause was again to rise from the ashes of our martyred nationality. Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa
My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. Lorna Luft
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation. Stephen Kinzer