Fire Quotes

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

At least I rescued your poor hot dog.

When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold.While we are on fire let us seethe an...

And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The ...

It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and...

Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Fire is our first form of technology.

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much bet...

Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hol...

I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know ...

Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.

Flames entered the room like dancers, orange-colored and whirring.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on ...

Ah earth you old extinguisher.

Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possibl...

At the end of her life she was aware of heat but not pain. She had time to consider his eyes, eyes o...

I am Cinna's bird, ignited, flying frantically to escape something inescapable. The feathers of flam...

I go back to my room and lie under the covers, trying not to think of Gale and thinking of nothing e...

hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," ...

I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is its...

That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...

I want to tell the rebels that I am alive. That I'm right here in District Eight, where the Capitol ...

I know we promised Haymitch, we'd do exactly what they said, but I don't think he considered this an...

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so th...

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

The dove descending breaks the airWith flame of incandescent terrorOf which the tongues declareThe o...

The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of a...

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to ...

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be ...

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $6...

Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usual...

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a...

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in...

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passer...

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-...

The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fac...

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, c...

Why, after all, did she do these things? Why seek pinnacles and stand drenched in fire? Might it con...

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its...

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

...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the sco...

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weed...

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-an...

Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...

The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's...

O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with...

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a streng...

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ...

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our hous...

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warm...

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...

Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire ...

Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re...

Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal...

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he...

all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair o...

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish t...

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like ...

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I ...

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled...

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in a...

But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments...