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Quotes About Burning

Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.
~ Peter Pouncey
Jimmy improvvisamente sembrò rovente dentro di me, e bruciava via tutto fin su nel mio petto e in gola e io resistetti finché potei, non più per lui ma per me, perché pensavo che se fossi rimasta in silenzio, lasciando che continuasse soltanto a respirare, che continuasse a spingere il suo fuoco dentro di me, Jimmy Freeze sarebbe stato in grado di bruciarmi annullandomi
~ Philip Beard
From they sack and they belly opened And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth They feed they Lion and he comes.
~ Philip Levine
AteÅŸi düÅŸündüm, ama sonsuz bir kitab?n yak?lmas?n?n da sonsuz olmas?ndan ve yeryüzünü duman?yla boÄŸabilmesinden ürktüm.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Is Paris burning?
~ Adolf Hitler
I tell you, truth is, at this moment, here burning outward through our skins. Eternity streams through my body: touch it with your hand and see. Till the walls of the tunnel cave in and the black river walks on our faces.
~ Adrienne Rich
If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning
~ Adrienne Rich
I loved 'Burning Love,' and I really do love almost everything Paul Scheer touches.
~ Kristen Schaal
When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.
~ Prince William
THE mighty desert is burning for the love of a blade of grass who shakes her head and laughs and flies away.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
To thee, to thee, O my beauty, my fire! Thou hast been burning in my heart all these futile years. If my life were a piece of gold it would come out of its trial brighter, but it is a trodden turf of grass, and nothing remains of it but this handful of ashes.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.
~ John Caudwell
As far back as I can remember, I have worshipped the sun. My skin is fair, but as the years have gone by, it has toughened and darkened. I now turn a rich golden brown every summer, but only after the first day of burning.
~ Jane Green
Do you ever read any of the books you burn? He laughed. That's against the law! Oh. Of course.
~ Ray Bradbury
Garrett, said Stendahl, do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
~ Ray Bradbury
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
~ Ray Bradbury
There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why I feel like I'm putting on weight, I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't konw what. I might even start reading books.
~ Ray Bradbury
The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway.
~ Ray Bradbury
The sun burned every day. It burned Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned!
~ Ray Bradbury
And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. The river bobbled him along gently. Burning. The sun and every clock on the earth. It all came together and became a single thing in his mind. After a long time of floating on the land and a short time of floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.
~ Ray Bradbury
When I reread it as a teenager, Fahrenheit 451 had become a book about independence, about thinking for yourself. It was about treasuring books and the dissent inside the covers of books. It was about how we as humans begin by burning books and end by burning people.
~ Ray Bradbury
Que el mundo arda a través de uno mismo.
~ Ray Bradbury
She was as rational as you and I, more so perhaps, and we burnt her.
~ Ray Bradbury