Quotes About Fire

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault

That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on the wrong side of that sheet of ice, in the cold sterile water, while the fire burnt at the farm and the smell of Christmas food seeped out of the kitchen. And above him always the criss-crossed pattern of his own skates.

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas? Perhaps they mix too well.

What I was thinking was that she must have buggers in her bloomers or a chigger on her figger, or however you say it. It looked to me like something had better be done about it pretty quick, or her pants would start blazing and maybe they'd set the fairgrounds on fire and there'd be a panic with thousands of people getting stomped to death, not to mention the property damage. And I couldn't think of but one way to prevent it.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.

Love is a fire. But whether it's going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Time is the school in which we learn, / Time is the fire in which we burn: Delmore Schwartz again.

After Princeton, the years seem like a blur, but the days seem more like rapid fire. - Donald Rumsfeld in Year of Magical Thinking

Time is the school in which we learn, / Time is the fire in which we burn: Delmore Schwartz

The city burning is Los Angeles's deepest image of itself.

There were a few compensations to having corporeal Aspect. Food (jam tarts were my favourites); drink (mostly wine and mead); setting things on fire; sex (although I was still extremely confused by all the taboos surrounding this - no animals, no siblings, no men, no married women, no demons - frankly, it was amazing to me that anyone had sex at all, with so many rules against it).

Loki was hurling fire runes and holding a running commentary on her battle, to which no one but him was listening to. 'And Thor gets in behind Frey and - WHAM! BOOM! That's got to hurt. And Loki SCORES! This boy's on FIRE!

Roux flung a handful of dried shavings on to the embers of his fire; the scent was sharp and immediate, lemon grass and lavender, sage and applewood and pine, like the campfires of my childhood.

Roux seemed different here, more relaxed, outlined in fire as he supervised his cooking. I remember river crayfish, split and grilled over the embers, sardines, early corn, sweet potatoes, caramelized apples rolled in sugar and flash-fried in butter, thick pancakes, honey. We ate with our fingers from tin plates and drank cider and more of the spiced wine.

And now the Old Man recited the prophecy of the Seeress: The Cradle fell an age ago, but Fire and Folk shall raise her In just twelve days, at End of Worlds; a gift within the sepulchre. But the key to the gate is a child of hate, a child of both and neither. And nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost for ever.

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

Keep yourselves far from envy; because it eats up and takes away good actions, like a fire eats up and burns wood.

I am like fire; if you take care of me I'll brighten your life, but if you play with me you'll burn.

Let us, make love to ourselves, of self discovery, of inspiration, of fire, of growth.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small it enkindles the great.

When something happens, just remember to keep hope in your eyes and fire in your heart to live your life to its fullest!