Fire Quotes

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Bruce Lee

Love, Friendship, Pretty

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer

Life, Time, Thankful

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha

Life, Men, Live

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou

Anger, Bitterness, Cancer

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, Reason, Dangerous

Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
Ann Landers

Love, Friendship, Good

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare

Love, Snow, Words

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats

Education, Lighting, Filling

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

Money, Down, Else

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill

Country, Advice, English

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
Mark Twain

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin

Home, Food, Mind

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Try, Place

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love, Time, God

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Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

Keep, Conscience, Alive

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
Dwight L. Moody

Light, Tell, Attention

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
William Shakespeare

Heaven, Invention, Muse

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
Mitch Hedberg

Business, Said, Guy

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Bill Maher

God, Quit, Telling

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
Erma Bombeck

Why, Else, Door

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
Benjamin Franklin

Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.
Marilyn Monroe

Friend, Find, Enough

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
George Carlin

Freedom, Fight, Crime

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw

Door, Painting, National

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin

Morning, Through, Joy

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
Frank Zappa

Two, Necessary, Imagine

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Music, Nature, God

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch

Mind, Vessel, Filled

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