The Fire Quotes

Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms.

Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.

Truly, we are the gods' own children, forged in the fire of our tortured pasts, but also blessed with unimaginable gifts.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

All fires burn out at last.

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.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

Impossibility is a log thrown on the fires of love.

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.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.

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

Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Man must have fires in his life: Fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!

The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost... Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.

A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

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.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.

It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.

That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.

Teach like your hair's on fire!

So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you," Peeta replies.

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

You're hideous, you know that, right?

No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lamplit race, And each from each takes heart of grace And spirit till his turn be done.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.