Fires Quotes

366 Fires quotes by 313 unique authors

You okay? (Grace) Oh, yeah. I’m just fine considering the fact I’ve walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes. — Neil Peart
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have… — George W. Bush
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world. — Rainer Maria Rilke
like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur… — Vera Nazarian
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
In the coming days and weeks, Laila would scramble frantically to commit it all to memory, what happened next. Like an art lover running out… — Khaled Hosseini
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a… — Nicole Krauss
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. — Robert Jordan
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… — Cormac McCarthy
I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home… — Jack Kerouac
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can… — Patrick Rothfuss
I wasn't used to living crowded cheek by jowl with numbers of other people, as was customary here. People ate, slept, and frequently copulated, crammed… — Diana Gabaldon
Here I am on the shore of Brittany. Let the cities light up in the evening. My day is done. I am leaving Europe. The… — Arthur Rimbaud
He shrugged. "I was...thinking." "About what?" "The fires of purgatory." She had to sit down. He wasn't making any sense now. "What does that mean?"… — Julie Garwood
She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is… — Khaled Hosseini
The Doctor: [aiming gun at the ceiling] Didn't anyone ever tell you? There's one thing you never put in a trap if you're smart. If… — Steven Moffat
only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred — Beth Moore
For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of… — John Cheever
And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. — William Shakespeare
How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the… — Mark Strand
Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because… — Hermann Hesse
At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that… — Alain de Botton

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