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Fire Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would…
- They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
- And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in…
- We wouldnt ever eat anybody, would we? No. Of course not. Even if we were starving? We're starving now. You said we werent. I said…
- You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is…
- Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the…
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
- The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
- We're carrying the fire.
- Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
- Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes…
More Fire Quotes
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire. — Norman Vincent Peale
- Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like… — William Shakespeare
- You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike. — Dave Attell
- My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was — William Shakespeare
- Personality of reincarnating as Paulo was that of his deceased sister, Emilia. She made several suicidal attempts. Finally she took cyanide and… — Ian Stevenson
- The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell