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Quotes About Embers

The way I see it hatred, racism and bigotry are like embers that, over time - with honest debate, leadership, and a firm commitment to our moral and democratic values - can be extinguished.
~ Phil Scott
Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.
~ Stephen King
Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.
~ Stephen King
Your hair is Winter fire January embers My heart burns there too
~ Stephen King
The term curfew now means a time by which someone—usually a teenager—has to get home. The original curfew was a kitchen object: a large metal cover placed over the embers at night to contain the fire while people slept.
~ Bee Wilson
Ods me I marle what pleasure or felicity they have in taking their roguish tobacco. It is good for nothing but to choke a man, and fill him full of smoke and embers.
~ Ben Jonson
We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.
~ George Martin
As the campfire burned to an ashy bowl of red-hot embers, the boys would ramble on, piling up horror upon horror, like cordwood stacked under a blood-red-barked madrona tree.
~ Gregg Olsen
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
~ Gregory Maguire
Sisa shut up the cabin and covered the few embers with ash so they wouldn't go out, as people do with their deepest feelings: cover them with life's ashes, which they call "indifference," so they don't go out completely as a result of day-to-day interaction with our peers.
~ Jose Rizal
White as ash, her face, but ashes hold the phantoms of fires.
~ Esther M. Friesner
As the kindled fire consumes the fuel, so in the flame of wisdom the embers of action are burnt to ashes.
~ Bhagavad Gita
As the first hard drops of rain fell, the Witch caught sight, not of the girl's face, but of the shoes. Her sister's shoes. They sparkled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood, and thorny stars.
~ Gregory Maguire
Never underestimate the human spirit. Within us all are incredible embers of dreams, hopes and aspirations, waiting for us to breathe them into life. And it only takes a tiny ember to start a great fire.
~ Bear Grylls
Fireflies danced around her like embers after someone has thrown a log into the stove.
~ Heather O'Neill
There was an old belief that in the embers Of all things their primordial form exists, And cunning alchemists Could re-create the rose with all its members From its own ashes, but without the bloom, Without the lost perfume Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Eternally the embers glow masterfully fueled by lovers passion.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Your hair is winter fire, January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT
~ Stephen King
After the fire died down, what remained were two charred hearts, that once beat as one.
~ Anthony Liccione
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again!
~ Anthony Liccione
Then the boy went to sleep And one or two embers alive in the ashes flared up In the shape of your beloved face. Thousands of dreams spread over the land. Stars like silver eyes twinkling in the night… You shining ones fell to Earth Even though the cons turn many prayers to dust, I will keep praying. Please love that child And kiss the hand you're holding.
~ Katsura Hoshino
...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
A time when sky blue love bids farewell to the day and before dusk falls, the sunset ignites the smouldering embers of the moonlit soul...
~ Virginia Alison
My heart was oaken before you set it on fire. It will continue to smolder, long after the flame that ignited it has gone.
~ Natalia Marx, Fire & Raine