Burned Quotes
658 Burned quotes by 509 unique authors
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Willow: (on her Halloween costume): I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at…
— Joss Whedon
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There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
— John Boyne
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When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.
— Steven Erikson
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They had bombed and burned,killed and maimed,plundered and looted.Now they had come to claim the land.
— Susan Abulhawa
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Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something…
— Ally Carter
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Our gazes locked, so much passing between us. In those moments, I wasn't in a tent with him, on the run from those who regarded…
— Richelle Mead
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A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity…
— Cassandra Clare
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After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like…
— Elizabeth George Speare
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Four liars are about to be burned -A
— Sara Shepard
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Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it a philosophical thing.…
— Rajneesh
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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.
— Jack Kemp
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Christianity persecuted, tortured, and burned. Like a hound it tracked the very scent of heresy. It kindled wars, and nursed furious hatreds and ambitions... Man,…
— George Santayana
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The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.
— Robert Frost
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It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
— Faith Baldwin
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[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
— Paolo Giordano
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I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics…
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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My brother thinks it is very, very bad that I left Islam. My half-sister wants to convert me back; I want to convert her to…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was…
— Adam Savage
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I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah,…
— Emraan Hashmi
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Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable rainforest products can help to stop rainforest devastation. The rainforests are much more valuable alive than cut or…
— Chris Kilham
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Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for…
— Alice Walker
Who Wrote These Burned Quotes
509 authors contributed a total of 658 Burned Quotes, led by these top contributors: