Fire Quotes

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity...

...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the sco...

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean—privet, vines, and weed...

Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked i...

For the fire consumes all but the arsonist.

But clouds bellied out in the sultry heat, the sky cracked open with a crimson gash, spewed flame-an...

Others, I am not the first,Have willed more mischief than they durst:If in the breathless night I to...

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle ...

The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's...

O bid these strangers go ;Turn to my lips till their cup overflow ;Hurt me with kisses, kill me with...

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Her...

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a streng...

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He...

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ...

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

The burnt child dreads the fire.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

And when I breathed, my breath was lightning.

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...

My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our hous...

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warm...

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...

Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire ...

Even the girl he'd danced with had thought it was some marvelous trick. She had been enveloped in re...

Fire wants to burn Water wants to flow Air wants to rise Earth wants to bindChaos wants to devourCal...

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he...

all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair o...

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

all theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish t...

The fire? It has been alive as long as I have. We talk and think together all night long. It’s like ...

The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I ...

A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled...

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in a...

But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments...

As to my mouth, of all my features, I wish I could possess my mouth again, just as it had been befor...

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run...

A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering again...

He watched him stoke the flames, God's own firedrake. The sparks rushed upward and died in the starl...

It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The...

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as i...

I jumped for it and lit in a snowbank and what I'm goin to tell you you'll think peculiar but it's t...

Used to be a hobo right smart. back in the thirties. They wasnt no work I dont care what you could d...

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slope...

- because just by hating it’s possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire....

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

I quit smoking in December. I’m really depressed about it. I love smoking, I love fire, I miss light...

Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there wer...

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

The demon at length fell to singing a gentle, flickering little song. It was not in any language Sop...

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered s...

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthous...

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my hone...

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is...

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to ex...

I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to...

As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - ...

The fire alarm went off. Fire engines came racing; we all rushed out on the gravel drive, everyone t...

And in the night you realize, when you wake out of a dream, overcome and captivated by the enchantme...

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were contin...

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man s...

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...

Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money...

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is...

Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are b...

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred ...

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as...

The lord of light made the sun and moon and stars to light our day, and gave us fire to keep the nig...

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the w...

Ice can kill as dead as fire.