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Quotes About Fire

Gil: Wait. This is Castle Heterodyne . Maybe it's supposed to be on fire. Castle: FIRE?! AAHHH! PUT IT OUT! SAVE MEEEE! Tarvek: ... apparently not .
~ Kaja Foglio
We find Tankawosho breaking up a wooden statue of Buddha on a wintry day to make a fire. 'What sacrilege!' said the horror-stricken bystander. 'I wish to get the Shali out of the ashes,' calmly rejoined the Zen. 'But you certainly will not get Shali from this image!' was the angry retort, to which Tanka replied, 'If I do not, this is certainly not a Buddha and I am committing no sacrilege.' Then he turned to warm himself over the kindling fire.
~ Kakuz? Okakura
three torches burning with a single flame.
~ Kallistos Ware
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.
~ Sean Connery
But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.
~ Henry Bonilla
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Jeremy can't do anything. I've never discovered anything he can do. I mean, he can drive a car round a track pretty well, but he wouldn't be able to light a fire.
~ James May
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
~ Francis Bacon
It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
~ Francis Bacon
It more or less has the shape of a love song, but 'Crescent Moon' reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.
~ Frank Black
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
The influence of the recent past is always overestimated. When we are asked to name the greatest human inventions we tend to think of the telephone, the electric light bulb and the silicon chip rather than the wheel, the plough and the taming of fire.
~ Frans de Waal
Every instinct warned me that from this hour my strength must wane, till dawn came like a fire to burn away my life—unless before dawn I had found rest.
~ Fred Saberhagen
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.
~ Frederica Mathewes-Green
Thus the sons of earth now drink in The fire of heaven without danger. And it is our duty, poets, to stand Bare-headed under the storms of God, Grasping with our own hand The Father's beam itself, And to offer the gift of heaven, Wrapped in song, to the people. From "As On a Holiday" ("Wie Wenn am Feiertage")
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.
~ Friedrich Schleiermacher
I wonder ... if Mars is hell? Only waiting for our arrival before it bursts into brimstone and fire.
~ bradbury ray iii
Love, in all its fragile forms, is the one powerful, enduring force that brings real meaning to our everyday lives...but the love I mean is the fire that burns inside us all, the inner warmth that prevents our soul from freezing in the winters of despair.
~ Bradley Trevor Grieve
Chicago? It caught fire over a hundred years ago... an' no one's ever bothered to put it out.
~ Brain Azzarello
I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.
~ Brandon Boyd
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind
~ Brandon Boyd
And yet, when you fly, you are amazing. You're so determined, so skillful, so passionate. You're a fire, Spin. When everyone else is calm, you're a burning bonfire. Beautiful, like a newly forged blade.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I can see why we need fellows who know how to light fires," Bluth said. "But I don't see why we need people to use fancy words." "Shhhh," Shallan said. "Don't say that so loudly. If the lighteyes hear, they might stop wasting their time making up new words, and instead start interfering with the business of honest men.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I felt hollowed out. Empty. Not afraid, of course. I bathed in fires of destruction and reveled in the screams of the defeated. I didn't get afraid. But maybe, deep down, I was…worried.
~ Brandon Sanderson