Burning Quotes

1238 Burning quotes by 956 unique authors

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning… — Maria Montessori
The city breathing, burning, living the life thy had preserved. Ten million lives and more. If something should happen to all that life- how terrible!… — Diane Duane
It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS,… — William Goldman
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks
It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure not too attractive. Lenticels. I just hope my kids don’t… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out? — Joyce Carol Oates
- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?… — Vladimir Nabokov
I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of… — Carl Sandburg
If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for… — Wade Davis
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you… — Margaret Atwood
There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning,… — Annie Dillard
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am burning myself up and will always do so. — Jean Cocteau
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night… — Khaled Hosseini
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch… — Leonard Cohen
Medicine, electronic communications, space travel, genetic manipulation . . . these are the miracles about which we now tell our children. These are the miracles… — Dan Brown
Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is… — Rajneesh
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing… — Emily Bronte
Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out… — Sylvia Plath
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light. — Oscar Wilde
We are loping sequences of chemical conversions, acting ourselves converted. We are twists of genes acting ourselves twisted; we are wicks of burning neuroses acting… — Gregory Maguire
As for you, Private, if you mention a word of this to anyone, I'll feed you to the cat thing here. Understand?" "Yum," said Mogget.… — Garth Nix
My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur. — Kurt Vonnegut
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the… — Edgar Allan Poe

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