Famous Quotes & Sayings

This problem is exploding in the face of the government. They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There's the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.

This problem is exploding in the face of the government, ... They have politicized it so much they are making fools of themselves. There's the image of Paris burning and that is very, very bad.

Several of these fires got away and were burning very close to homes and communities.

Valerie June

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

Abraham Lincoln

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Brandon Flowers

I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

George Martin

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

Chris Vance

The only effect it could have is burning out our donors. I don't think that's going to happen. The people who donate to the state candidate fund are different than those who donate for anything else.

Trace Adkins helped keep country's traditionalist flame burning during the crossover-happy late '90s.

Caleb Cushing

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

will.i.am

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

Antonin Scalia

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It could be semaphore. And burning a flag is a symbol that expresses an idea - I hate the government, the government is unjust, whatever.

Dan Lipinski

The high prices also highlight the fact that the U.S. is too heavily dependent on fossil fuels that we import from unstable parts of the world. To protect our national security, we must become more energy secure.

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

David J. C. MacKay

Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such that people stop burning coal without capture.

Louis MacNeice

Though I do regard the Inquisition in general and the burning of Giordano Bruno in particular as blots on the history of the Roman Catholic Church, I am far from being actuated by hatred of that church, and in fact cannot imagine that European civilization would have developed or survived without it.

Cole Porter

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

Hugh Johnson

We call it a potential critical fire danger stage. We extremely discourage any outside burning during a red flag.

Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .

We're really not trying to make it miserable for people. But it's burning electricity. Our quick estimate is that it's costing us $100,000 per year.

We're really looking for the cooperation of the public that's what makes this work. Hopefully they can hold off on burning until the conditions change a little bit.

Paul O'Grady

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

Joe Gibbs

You always have a burning desire to do well, ... It wouldn't matter if it was the first year, second year, third year.

Those cards will be burning holes in everyone's pockets.

Right now, I'm burning through the cash. We certainly have visions to make money at some point. I have an extensive Rolodex.

Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

We are recommending no one do any outside burning because it is very dry all over Texas.

Doug Aitken

I see life as a burning meteorite that you can climb all over, and feed off, as it is falling to earth.

Albert Schweitzer

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

E. O. Wilson

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.