Fire Quotes
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.Napolean Hill
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
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
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
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington
As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present.Maitri Upanishads
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?George Carlin
Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.La Rochefoucald
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.William Fullbright
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
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.
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
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
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".
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.William Carleton
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
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
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
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
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.William Safire
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D Eisenhowe
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - For credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Socrates
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.Auguste Rodin
Out of the frying pan into the fire.Quintus Septimius Tertullianus, De Carne Christi
