Quotes About Fire

Tavern" I'll keep a little tavern Below the high hill's crest, Wherein all grey-eyed people May sit them down and rest. There shall be plates a-plenty, And mugs to melt the chill Of all the grey-eyed people Who happen up the hill. There sound will sleep the traveller, And dream his journey's end, But I will rouse at midnight The falling fire to tend. Aye, 'tis a curious fancy-- But all the good I know Was taught me out of two grey eyes A long time ago.

Few Come This Way Few come this way; not that the darkness Deters them, but they come Reluctant here who fear to find, Thickening the darkness, what they left behind Sucking its cheeks before the fire at home, The palsied Indecision from whose dancing head Precipitately they fled, only to come again Upon him here, Clutching at the wrist of Venture with a cold Hand, aiming to fall in with him, companion Of the new as of the old.

So is no warmth for me at any fire To-day, when the world's fire has burned so low; I kneel, spending my breath in vain desire, At that cold hearth which one time roared so strong, And straighten back in weariness, and long To gather up my little gods and go.

Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

They listened for a while to the perfect music of the wind and rain and night. To the fire and the simmering kettle.

Hayduke smelled something foul in all this. A smoldering bitterness warmed his heart and nerves; the slow fires of anger kept his cockles warm, his hackles rising. Hayduke burned. And he was not a patient man.

The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

The wise and moral manShines like a fire on a hilltop,Making money like the bee,Who does not hurt the flower.

There appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven.

When fire is cried and danger is neigh, "God and the firemen" is the people's cry; But when 'tis out and all things righted, God is forgotten and the firemen slighted.

She told me she worked in the morningAnd started to laugh,I told her I didn'tAnd crawled off to sleep in the bath.And when I awokeI was alone,This bird had flown.So I lit a fire,Isn't it goodNorwegian wood.

My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned.

The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches.

Backdraft has the right-of-way.

Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.

His word burned like a lamp.

There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues.

Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?