No one wants to be kindling

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts,…

— Washington Irving

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly…

— Rudolf Arnheim

One stick of kindling alone will not light a fire.

— Anonymous

If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned…

— Henry Rollins

Love is like a campfire: It may be sparked quickly, and at first the kindling throws out a lot of heat, but it burns…

— Molleen Matsumura

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel

— Socrates

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an…

— D. H. Lawrence

If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men…

— John Godfrey Saxe

This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and…

— Heraclitus

And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love…

— Gerald Massey

Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts; There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy, The precious poetry of life shall gild its…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots,…

— Anne Taylor Fleming

O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our…

— Louis of Granada

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

— Edmund Spenser

“Well, you are the perfect kindling for a half-angel's fire. - Essallie”

— Alivia Anders