Fires Quotes

366 Fires quotes by 313 unique authors

We have become a force of nature Not long ago, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, drought, forest fires, even earthquakes and volcanic explosions were accepted as “natural… — David Suzuki
Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart,… — Rich Mullins
There are some fires you can't get out of- you've got to go through the fire - you've got to go through the flood -… — T.D. Jakes
In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them… — Vito Fossella
Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that.… — Nicholas Meyer
A story: A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory,… — Anthony Swofford
It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes… — Zebulon Pike
In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and… — Michael Meade
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines… — George Eliot
Most of these Mountains and Inland places whereon these kind of Petrify'd Bodies and Shells are found at present, or have been heretofore, were formerly… — Robert Hooke
Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful… — Carl Sagan
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. — A. E. Housman
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
China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets – that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon. — Constance Spry
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
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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
According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home,… — Unknown Author
But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie. — David McCord
Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. — William Wordsworth
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
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
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
I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground… — Jack Handey

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