Fires Quotes

366 Fires quotes by 313 unique authors

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing… — Truman Capote
Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. — William Shakespeare
Like the tender fires of stars moments of their life together, that no one knew of or would ever know of, broke upon and illuminated… — James Joyce
For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the… — Mary Oliver
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before. — Thomas Kinkade
Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all… — Keri Hulme
If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been,… — Anne Rice
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes… — Don DeLillo
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle… — Rainer Maria Rilke
That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the… — Sue Monk Kidd
They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No.… — Ray Bradbury
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough? — Kathleen Norris
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities. — Charles Manson
And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things-those Strange eyes of his-what colour?… — Anna Akhmatova
I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart… — Alexander Pushkin
I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil." What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?" It was… — Elizabeth Scott
As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”) — George Sterling
A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks… — Lynne Truss
You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies… — Patrick Rothfuss
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow… — Willa Cather
Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature… — Robert Graves

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