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Quotes About Fire

Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
~ Anne Carson
Lava bread makes you passionate.
~ Anne Carson
Pilgrims were people glad to take off their clothing, which was on fire.
~ Anne Carson
Pass down an alley then turn a corner and there it is. Volcano in a wall. Do you see that, says Ancash. Beautiful, Herakles breathes out. He is looking at the men. I mean the fire, says Ancash. Herakles grins in the dark. Ancash watches the flames. We are amazing beings, Geryon is thinking. We are neighbors of fire. And now time is rushing towards them where they stand side by side with arms touching, immortality on their faces, night at their back.
~ Anne Carson
No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
~ Anne Carson
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 PETER 1:6 – 7
~ Anne Graham Lotz
Satan must grin wickedly when he sees our gossip disguised as a prayer request or a need to get a third person's opinion. It just adds fuel to Satan's fire as the problem becomes widespread and relationships are damaged.
~ Anne Graham Lotz
At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again." Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice. 1 KINGS 18:36 – 38
~ Anne Graham Lotz
These have come so that your faith — of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire — may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 PETER 1:7
~ Anne Graham Lotz
I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.
~ ANNE REEVE ALDRICH
voice)...it was honey, smoke, crystal, fire, wind, water, earth.
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.
~ Anne Sexton
June and July? These are the months we call Boiling Water.
~ Anne Sexton
We moved like angels washing themselves. We moved like two birds on fire. — Anne Sexton, from "How We Danced" in "The Death of the Fathers," The Norton Anthology of American Literature , ed. Baym et al, 5th edition, Volume 2, (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1998)
~ Anne Sexton
Yes. It is the witch's life, climbing the primordial climb, a dream within a dream, then sitting here holding a basket of fire.
~ Anne Sexton
Un bacio nell'incavo del ginocchio è un fruscio di falena alla zanzariera e sì amore mio un puntino luminoso sull'ecometro è Campanellino con la tossetta e due volte perderò l'onore e le stelle saranno confitte come puntine nella notte sì oh sì sì sì due chioccioline all'incavo del ginocchio che accen- dono falò simili a ci- glia che sfregano sì sì sì come pietrina d'accendino bic: e così esisto!
~ Anne Sexton
He was sound asleep, his long legs stretched out in front of him, the blessed fire blazing, an empty bottle of wine by his side. He hadn't been shaved recently, and he looked rumpled, dissolute and beautiful. Like a fallen angel. She moved to stand in front of him and pointed the pistol directly at his heart. "I wouldn't do that if I were you," he murmured, and then he opened his extraordinary eyes. "It's always unwise to shoot the man you're in love with.
~ Anne Stuart
whereas "I" persist with the fire. born movement the appearance is self-less
~ Anne-Marie Albiach
The prophet—coming forth from time to time with the divine word hot as fire on his lips—speaks out the ancient truth and illuminates tradition. But they who cling to the words of tradition are apt to be blinded by the light of the fire and to call out "heretic" against the one who speaks the truth that they have lost.
~ Annie Besant
How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
~ Anonymous
The most profound memory I have from my childhood is burning down my house at 6 years old.
~ Black Thought
The household I grew up in... was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.
~ Brian Blessed
The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
~ Buffalo Bill
Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own.
~ Jon Krakauer