Fire Quotes

4545 Fire quotes by 2647 unique authors

Yonder cloud That rises upward always higher, And onward drags a laboring breast, And topples round the dreary west, A looming bastion fringed with fire. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he… — Rabindranath Tagore
The roaring street is hung for miles With fierce electric fire. — William Vaughn Moody
Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, When do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below All… — Edmund Clarence Stedman
When the Negro cries with pain from his deep hurt and lays his petition for elemental justice before the nation, he is calling upon the… — Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected. — Xenophanes
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
Bearing in his right paw the shovel that digs to the truth beneath appearances, cut the roots of useless attachments, and flings damp sand on… — Gary Snyder
But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my heart, when his… — Heinrich Heine
That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly… — Norman Douglas
Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love. — Sri Chinmoy
As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in… — B.K.S. Iyengar
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. — Estelle
I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older… — Jennie Finch
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Getting dragged, kicking and screaming out of the ring, begging for mercy from whomever it is that fires me, and never be seen again. That's… — Chris Jericho
Grief is not very different from illness: in the impetus of its fire it does not recognise lords, it does not fear colleagues, it does… — Eleanor of Aquitaine
There is only one thing about which I shall have no regrets when my life ends. I have savored to the full all the small,… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Your life sparks fires from within your innermost temple. No one can reach there but you, it is your inner sanctum. You are your own… — Rajneesh
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams.… — Elizabeth Kim
If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal… — Henry David Thoreau
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire. — Timothy Keller

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