Fire Quotes

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

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?

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.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don't have a lot of those bands anymore.

I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

I did my military service from 1989 - 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.

After I read 'The Hunger Games,' I went out and got 'Catching Fire' the next day.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don't have the physical skills but because they don't have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.

Genius is initiative on fire.

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.