The Fire Quotes

The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.

I hope for an America where the power of faith will always burn brightly, but where no modern inquisition of any kind will ever light the fires of fear, coercion, or angry division.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.

Night is not something to endure until dawn. It is an element, like wind or fire. Darkness is its own kingdom; it moves to its own laws, and many living things dwell in it.

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

Not far from the invention of fire we must rank the invention of doubt.

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

A still-born son os superior to a foolish son endowed with a long life. The first causes grief for but a moment while the latter like a blazing fire consumes his parents in grief for life.

As iron is fashioned by fire and on the anvil, so in the fire of suffering and under the weight of trials, our souls receive that form which our Lord desires them to have.

Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire.

My head is full of fire and grief and my tongue runs wild, pierced with shards of glass.

We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

Our dreams are just wishes, if we never follow them through with action. And in life, you have got to be able to light your own fire.

I will take what is mine with fire and blood.

Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire, you have provided a spark that, left unattended, may grow to an inferno that destroys Panem," he says.

Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins.

Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures's will.

The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

If the Wright brother were alive today Wilbur would have to fire Orville to reduce costs.

The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get apart from fire can't avoid being burn.

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

The object of our serch is the fire of grace which enters into the heart.