Quotes About Fire

As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Government is not reason it is not eloquent it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

It was due to this attitude of pomposity that he set the villa on fire. Leslie

That orbed maiden, with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

When your neighbor's house is afire your own property is at stake.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others and it becomes the property of all.

Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

Even so, the tongue is a little member and boasteth great things, behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Thoughts that breathe and words that burn.

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

My zeal hath consumed me.

Two or three times it occurred to Gjorg that all these men had killed, and that each had his story. But those stories were locked deep within them. It was not just chance that in the glow of the fire their mouths, and even more their jaws, looked as if they had the shape of certain antique locks.