Fire Quotes
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.Ernest Rutheford
Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterward propagate it.Johnson
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
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
Absence lessens the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind douses a candle and kindles a fire.La Rochefoucauld
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.Bhagavad Gita
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
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.Sir Walter Raleigh
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.James Madison, Federalist 10
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
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.Reggie Leach
Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.Henry Seely
All the means of action - The shapeless masses - The materials - Lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.La Rochefoucald
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.Margaret Fulle
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
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
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I? m just not close enough to get the job done.George Carlin
The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.William Safire
One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help 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
Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across.Rig Veda
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.Thomas Paine, Common Sense
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
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
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.
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.J. B. Yeats
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.Plutarch
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.Swedenborg
All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS, SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of campaigning with them. Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government.SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!Abigail van Buren
He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire.Punjabi proverb, Translated by Gurinder Singh Mann
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
