Fire Quotes
4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors
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This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in…
— John Hodgman
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The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of…
— Dominic Chianese
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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early…
— Val Guest
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Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close,…
— Nichiren
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Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead.
— William Shakespeare
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We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
— David McCord
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Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.
— William Wordsworth
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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's…
— John Donne
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But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be…
— George Ripley
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Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major…
— Edward R. Murrow
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American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making…
— John Yoo
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I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth,…
— George Catlin
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You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness…
— Jerry Lee Lewis
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I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by fire and steel…
— Belle Boyd
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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.
— Kyle Shewfelt
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Dance with all the might of your body, and all the fire of your soul, in order that you may shake all melancholy out of…
— Lola Montez
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September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than…
— Geoffrey Hill
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs,…
— Kathleen Raine
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I think that a hat which has a little cannon that fires and then goes back inside the hat is at least a decade away.
— Jack Handey
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I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No,…
— Jack Handey
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I'm not afraid of insects taking over the world, and you know why? It would take about a billion ants just to AIM a gun…
— Jack Handey
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If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid seeing yourself in the mirror, because I bet that's what REALLY throws you into a panic.
— Jack Handey
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I bet what happend was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel.
— Jack Handey
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