Fire Quotes

4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors

You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I,… — Marge Piercy
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. — Jorge Luis Borges
The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to… — Kent Nerburn
A great measure of a man is how he reacts to a midnight awakening when there's no fire or burglar in sight. — Kate Jacobs
Moloch merely shovels babies into the fire of productive capitalism. Mammon hooks them on the dead heroin of envy. — Hakim Bey
In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to… — Philip Caputo
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by the legendary 1st… — Unknown Author
Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space… — Jesmyn Ward
When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my… — Hideo Kojima
With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching… — Gianfranco Fini
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as… — William Booth
Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are… — William Booth
Nothing seems real anymore. Even the flames from the fire seem to beckon to me, drawing me into some great past life buried somewhere deep… — Ian Curtis
You can't start a fire in the pouring rain. — Tristan Prettyman
Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose. — Jerome Wiesner
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
Voila, pleasurable indeed. Oh yeah, satisfy my need. Alright, how I long to be. My soul on fire and my spirit free. — Michael Tolcher
If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where… — Edmund Wilson
On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do… — Shirley MacLaine
It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and… — Pema Chodron
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will… — Heraclitus
Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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