Fire Quotes
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master.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
Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.Comte DeBussy - Rabutin
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder - Storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.Thomas Mann
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.George Washington
If your house is on fire, warm yourself by it.Danish prove
He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann
Love is friendship caught on fire.Unknown
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
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
Pride, envy, avarice - - These are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.Alighieri Dante
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
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.George Gordon Byron
I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.Dorothy Parke
He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.Curtis Dahl
The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.Richard Milhous Nixon
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.Ed Koch
Love is friendship set on fire.Jeremy Taylo
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.Publilius Syrus
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
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.Dante Alighieri
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.Overlung
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.George Washington
Books have the same enemies as people fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.Paul Valery
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
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.La Rochefoucauld
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.
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.Ernest Rutheford
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
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
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
