Kindling Quotes
42 Kindling quotes by 37 unique authors
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When you are offended or annoyed by others, do not allow your thoughts to dwell on them or on anything relating to them. For example,…
— Lorenzo Scupoli
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And thou hast stolen a jewel, Death! Shall light thy dark up like a Star. A Beacon kindling from afar Our light of love and…
— Gerald Massey
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We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our…
— John Muir
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We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us....How glorious a…
— John Muir
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
— Washington Irving
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Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
— Gary D. Schmidt
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That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
— Walter M. Miller, Jr.
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She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of…
— Gloria Naylor
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe…
— Wallace Stegner
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THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling…
— Jed Rubenfeld
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Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them…
— Frances Hodgson Burnett
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Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass.…
— Kevin Brockmeier
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Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Christmas is a kindling of new fires.
— Gladys Taber
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Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel
— Socrates
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A heart aflame with worship begins with the kindling of song and prayer
— Mariane Corbito
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Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
— Washington Irving
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Her penultimate sighs called softy on the kindling wind. Her saintly eyes filling with tears.
— Cradle Of Filth
Who Wrote These Kindling Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 42 Kindling Quotes, led by these top contributors: