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Quotes About Blazes

A friendship is a lot like a fire. It can be hard to get started. After that it needs tending...A person can go around starting minuscule blazes, racing back and forth trying to feed them all; or a person can keep a few atomic bonfires burning high and bright.
~ Janisse Ray
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
~ Samuel Johnson
Ah, I know that, said Tiffany, as the boat rocked on the swell. Whales aren't dangerous, because they just eat very small things... Row like the blazes, lads! Rob Anybody yelled.
~ Terry Pratchett
Behind him the hill are open, the sun blazes down upon fields so large as to give unenclosed character to the landscape, the lanes are white, the hedges low and plashed, the atmosphere colourless.
~ Thomas Hardy
Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.
~ byron lord
There was another interruption. Mrs Reilly flung open the double doors and announced in a despairing tone, "If yez don't come now, the beef'll be burned to blazes. It's up to you." She turned on her heel and stalked off. "In other words," said SP, "luncheon is served.
~ Susan Green
Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.
~ Oswald Spengler
Houses nearby were burning, and when huge drops of water the size of marbles began to fall, he half thought that they must be coming from the hoses of firemen fighting the blazes. (They were actually drops of condensed moisture falling from the turbulent tower of dust, heat, and fission fragments that had already risen miles into the sky above Hiroshima.)
~ John Hersey
Britt stood outside and watched the regimental band straggling back to the barracks with their instruments in hand. Troopers of the new black Ninth Cavalry had been dismissed and were housing their guidons in the long leather cases. They walked back to the stables, leading their horses. All bays. Brown shoe polish had been used on those horses with white blazes or socks and so they all looked alike.
~ Paulette Jiles