Fire Quotes
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington
I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.Charles A. Lindbergh
Continuous unremitting darkness has been known to send some people into an emotional tailspin, so the management here at KBHR radio suggests locking away the firearms. The desire to stick that 45 between the teeth can get pretty strong at times, so why invite temptation.Andrew Schneide
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.George Carlin
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.Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.Thomas John Watson, Sr.
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.Hannah More
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.William Butler Yeats
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.Buddha
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.William Safire
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.De La Rochefoucauld.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.William Butler Yeats
Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - For credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Socrates
Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.William Shakespeare
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.Swedenborg
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.Hal Borland
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers’ tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.William Shakespeare, Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 1, sc. 1.
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.William Blake
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Roosevelt, Eleano
Arguments are like fire - Arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.Samuel Butle
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.Dwight D Eisenhowe
You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.Miguel de Cervantes
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
He had so many irons in the fire that he was never able to forge any single one into a weapon with which to conquer his world.Curtis Dahl
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire and nobody got scared.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired in the final analysis, is a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and not clothed.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Apr. 30, 1789
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.Joan Crawford
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?George Carlin
The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.Edith Sodergran
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.George Washington
