Kindling Quotes
42 quotes by 37 authors
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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
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Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart
— Hannah Szenes
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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
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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
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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
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If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling…
— Henry Rollins
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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
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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
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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
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You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and…
— Eugene B. Sledge
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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
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Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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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
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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
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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
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The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Kindling Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 42 Kindling Quotes, led by these top contributors: