Fire Quotes
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.Rig Veda
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit.Unknown, Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.Miguel de Cervantes
Time is the fire in which we burn.Gene Roddenberry
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.George Walker Bush
There is no accountability in the public school system - Except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory.Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984
There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.Gamal Abdel Nasse
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!Abigail van Buren
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.George Carlin
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.Swedenborg
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Let... others call me a hypocrite because I fired a gun in a moment of personal peril. I shall still be for strict gun control. But as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family.Carl T. Rowan, Jr.
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
May you never know hunger May you love with a full heart The light burn in your eyes May the fire be your friend And the sea rock you gently May the moon light your way Till the wind sets you free.Shriekback, "Cradle Song".
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.George Washington
There is only one boss the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.Sam Walton
Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.Eleanor Roosevelt
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
Out of the frying pan into the fire.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Alighieri Dante
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.George Washington
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery