Kindling Quotes

42 quotes by 37 authors

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… — Plutarch
Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart — Hannah Szenes
O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter… — Louis of Granada
Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not construction; the kindling… — Pope Pius XII
I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle… — Robert Green Ingersoll
If I was gay, thereâ€™d be no closet. Youâ€™d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling… — Henry Rollins
My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it… — Aldo Leopold
If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who… — John Godfrey Saxe
Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500… — John Godfrey Saxe
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray youâ€™ll never know The hell where youth and… — Eugene B. Sledge
This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will… — Heraclitus
Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks… — John Milton
Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades.… — Marilyn Ferguson
Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy. — Daisaku Ikeda
The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing. — Jaggi Vasudev
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it… — Kevin J. Anderson
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it… — Henry Rollins
I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark… — Jerry Reed

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