Burnt Quotes

291 quotes by 223 authors

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a… — Nancy E. Turner
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin. — Herodotus
For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the… — Max Weber
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! — Joan of Arc
My hair and I had a really bad argument. She was being sprayed with alcohol and burnt with irons. She was being over processed and… — Chrisette Michele
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for… — Charles Edward Montague
Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from… — Richard Rohr
Whatever Juice this sky will pour this gaping parched old throat will drain; What time the Harper harps I'll dance: 'tis He, not I, who… — Ridgely Torrence
In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is… — Antoine Lavoisier
I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to… — Sarah Fielding
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is… — Madeleine L'Engle
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. — G. M. Trevelyan
The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before. — Logan Pearsall Smith
When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. — Jacques Pepin
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes. — Zygmunt Bauman
To many women marriage is only this. It is merely a physical change impinging on their ordinary nature, leaving their mentality untouched, their self-possession intact.… — Mary Webb
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine. — Camille Claudel
I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them! — Luke Evans

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