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Quotes About Fire

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
~ Anonymous
Ladybug, ladybug, fly away home,Your house is on fire, and your children will burn.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Her bosom heaved, and she was just the guy to do it.
~ Anthony Boucher
page forty-four, Fire Down Below," he announced in a voice which suggested that he was trying to broadcast to the nation without using a microphone.
~ Anthony Buckeridge
And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest.
~ Anthony Burgess
The bony figure of Death rides the streets below, stopping his mount now and then to peer into windows. Horns of fire on his head and smoke leaking from his nostrils and, in his skeletal hand, a list of newly charged with addresses.
~ Anthony Doerr
Because of the diamond in your coat pocket. Because I left it here to protect you. All it has done is put me in more danger. Then why hasn't the house been hit? Why hasn't it caught fire? It's a rock, Papa. A pebble. There is only luck, bad or good. Chance and physics. Remember? You are alive. I am only alive because I have not yet died.
~ Anthony Doerr
From somewhere comes the sound of fire: the sound of dried roses being crumbled in a fist.
~ Anthony Doerr
He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.
~ Anthony Doerr
The Goddess of History looked down to earth. Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved.
~ Anthony Doerr
Lord Our God Your Grace is a purifying fire.
~ Anthony Doerr
Is it dawn? She climbs the ladder and presses her ear to the trapdoor. No more sirens. Maybe the house burned
~ Anthony Doerr
Werner can feel the fever flickering inside him, a stove with
~ Anthony Doerr
The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark. Smoke chases dust; ash chases smoke. A newsstand floats, burning.
~ Anthony Doerr
All of it burning. Every memory he ever made. Above Fort National, the dawn becomes deeply, murderously clear. The Milky Way a fading river. He looks across to the fires. He thinks: The universe is full of fuel.
~ Anthony Doerr
Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.
~ Anthony Doerr
Right three degrees, repeat range. Calm, weary voices directing fire. The same sort of voice God uses, perhaps, when He calls souls to Him. This way, please.
~ Anthony Doerr
BohynÄ› dÄ›jin shlíží na zemi. JedinÄ› skrze ten nejžhavÄ›jÅ¡í ohe? je možno dosáhnout o?iÅ¡tÄ›ní. Vidí les umírajících slune?nic.
~ Anthony Doerr
At daybreak, as he looked out over the sea, his gaze was met by ships that had been set on fire
~ Anthony Everitt
who set on fire all the siege equipment and destroyed it.
~ Anthony Everitt
He paused. 'There is something about the village of Saxby-on-Avon that concerns me,' he went on. 'I have spoken to you before of the nature of human wickedness, my friend. How it is the small lies and evasions which nobody sees or detects but which can come together and smother you like the fumes in a house fire.' He turned and surveyed the surrounding buildings, the shaded square. 'They are all around us.
~ Anthony Horowitz
What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!" "Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight." "What?" "I set fire to the boat." "But we're on the boat!" "I know.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out!
~ Anthony Horowitz
Now I would go to London's Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I'd love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.
~ Kate Williams