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Quotes About Fire

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.
~ Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Is the fire gone?" "Yes," I sighed. "Thank you, Edward." "I love you," he answered. "I know," I breathed, so tired. I heard my favorite sound in the world: Edward's quiet laugh, weak with relief.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution
~ William Shakespeare
Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.
~ Horace Mann
This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.
~ Jon Secada
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
~ Leonard Cohen
Then she decided her mother had not really guessed because she often asked where the fire was when Ramona was in a hurry.
~ Beverly Cleary
The grouse were almost certainly released a few at a time from cages. For all the sport in it, Walsingham might just as well have fired into the cages and given himself more time for tea.)
~ Bill Bryson
But Pauline would not take advice, She lit a match, it was so nice! It crackled so, it burned so clear,— Exactly like the picture here She jumped for joy and ran about, And was too pleased to put it out. Now see! Oh see! What a dreadful thing The fire has caught her apron-string; Her apron burns, her arms, her hair; She burns all over, everywhere.
~ Bill Bryson
As late as 1921, twenty-seven people perished in a stove fire on a train near Philadelphia.
~ Bill Bryson
Remembering the words of Ranko, her first teacher, the toothpick jutting out from the side of his mouth, his fiery red, stalklike hair—a scarecrow whose hair caught fire, as he once described himself.
~ Bill Clinton
And in the evening After the fire and the light One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the light Time is relentless And as the past disappears We're on the verge of all things new
~ Billy Joel
Peace will come With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall..
~ Bob Dylan
O Solon, you Greeks are children. There have been and will be many destructors of mankind, of which the greatest are by fire and water." She
~ Bob Mayer
If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.
~ Bob Riley
Today's Gypsies, who have lived in Prague for only two generations, light a ritual fire wherever they work, a nomads' fire crackling only for the joy of it, a blaze of rough-hewn wood like a child's laugh, a symbol of the eternity that preceded human thought, a free fire, a gift from heaven, a living sign of the elements unnoticed by the world-weary pedestrian, a fire in the ditches of Prague warming the wanderer's eye and soul.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
No. It was too warm for a fire." "For you or me, but older women sometimes experience temperature differently.
~ Brad Meltzer
Che errore pensare all'odio come qualcosa che infiamma. E' l'amore che arde, l'odio può soltanto raggelare.
~ Susanna Tamaro
La verdadera escritura se encuentra en otro lugar, en las profundidades, en el núcleo del fuego de la tierra, en el corazón, en las tinieblas del hombre. Procede y se mantiene en equilibrio entre esos dos extremos. Por eso cansa, agota, daña la salud.
~ Susanna Tamaro
The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens and the earth are there, and the sun and the moon and the stars. Fire and lightening and winds are there, and all that now is and all that is not.
~ Swami Prabhavananda
in open breach of the said law, under the colour of extinguishing the fire kindled in the apartment of his Majesty's most dear imperial consort, did maliciously, traitorously, and devilishly, by discharge of his urine, put out the said fire kindled in the said apartment, lying and being within the precincts of the said royal palace; against the statute in that case provided...
~ Swift Jonathan
Always somewhere there is fire or smoke, insistent reminders of the greed consuming the world
~ Sy Montgomery