Fire Quotes

Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Margaret Fulle

Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

Samuel Butle

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

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

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

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

I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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 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

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

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

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Swedenborg

Love is friendship set on fire.

Jeremy Taylo

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

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

The antiwar movement is a wild orgasm of anarchists sweeping across the country like a prairie fire.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.

Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003

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

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

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

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 extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

De La Rochefoucauld.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

Michel de Montaigne

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

Edith Sodergran

Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.

You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

Miguel de Cervantes

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, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789

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

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.

I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

Dorothy Parke

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

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.

To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

Napoleon I

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

Abigail van Buren

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