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Quotes About Burns

Ours is a lank country and on the naked edge of her knife our frail flag burns.
~ Pablo Neruda
"The ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout."
~ Johnny Cash
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.
~ Chinese proverb
he read everything he could lay his hands on, yet there are five books to be mentioned specifically, because from childhood they furnished his intellectual nutriment. These were the Bible, Aesop's Fables and Pilgrim's Progress, Burns, and Shakespeare.
~ Henry Ketcham
Ever since I got to know how easily skin donation can save the lives of serious burns patients, I have felt strongly about the issue.
~ Paresh Rawal
She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.
~ Dave Eggers
It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.
~ William Shakespeare
Fertile ether where the destruction of worlds is a single heart that burns itself out with love.
~ Vicente Aleixandre
Again and again, I am aware that the Light not only illumines but it also burns .
~ Howard Thurman
We came from over here, to over there Then told we wonder mindless to degree most seldom furls in slumber, burns begins a century.
~ Jim Morrison
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
~ Irving Layton
The key that sits in the lock, unused since the days of Hester, is hot. It burns my palm as I turn it.
~ Diane Setterfield
silver nitrate eyedrops. This almost completely eradicated the disease. But it turns out that silver nitrate is nasty. It can cause chemical burns and temporary blindness itself.
~ Jack Gilbert
Medals hang from his neck in a glittering array, like jewelry, like starts that will now go out because their sun no longer burns.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
The knowledge of it burns the inside of her head, leaving black scorch marks.
~ Maggie O'Farrell
Lots of famous chefs today don't look whacked, because they don't work. They have a healthy glow and a clear complexion. There is blood in their cheeks. They haven't got burns on their wrists and cuts on their hands.
~ Marco Pierre White
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.
~ Neil Peart
His inner furnace burns stronger than most. Sometimes it flares up and he can't contain his anger. It's why we call him Ireheart.
~ Unknown
I had not only to contend against my own sensibility, but against yours also._The fire which is pent up burns the fiercest!
~ Unknown
Applied externally, it gives "almost instant relief of pain, and rapid healing," she says. At least in burns of the first and second degree it will prevent vessication, inflammation and scarring.
~ Unknown
I can feel the sensation (it burns) of being called crazy when you feel wounded and desperate.
~ Unknown