Fire Quotes

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Francis Bacon

George Catlin

John W. Foster

Elsa Maxwell

William Allingham

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Amy Lowell

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

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

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Charles Kendall Adams

Each minute bursts in the burning room,
The great globe reels in the solar fire,
Spinning the trivial and unique away.
(How all things flash! How all things flare!)
What am I now that I was then?
May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.

Delmore Schwartz

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the colour in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty, and your animal spirits, and you will pass for a fine man.

William Hazlitt

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham

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

J. B. S. Haldane

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

J. B. Priestley

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is—the power of lighting its own fire.

If your descent is from heroic sires,
Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for talk beside the fire; it is the time for home.

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society, for nothing suffocates the promise of America more than unbounded cynicism and indifference.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Clifford D. Simak

The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.

Joshua Chamberlain

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.