Quotes about fire
fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. Charles Caleb Colton
fire liberty purpose
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
fire wish mastery
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. Charles Dickens
fire wish mastery
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
fire feelings words-of-wisdom
I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
fire mark malice
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. Charles Simmons
fire music-is stills
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. Alan Jackson
fire should-have skulls
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m. David Sedaris
fireworks
...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework. David Mitchell
fire circles theatre
Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats. David Tennant
fire light together
But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together. Buddy Rich
fire snow water
Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. Buffalo Bill
fire poor-management acres
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action. Cathy McMorris Rodgers
fire good knew positive side
The positive side was the person knew where the fire extinguisher was and how to use it. That was the good thing.
fire seeing
We are seeing better recognition of (fire safety) problems.
fire goes gossip strife tale wood
Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
fire
When you've got 12 fire departments, you've got a lot of buttons.
fire haste weak
Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws. William Shakespeare
fire heaven muse
O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
fire people giving
When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody. Mark Cuban
fire want stones
When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned. Aisha Tyler
fire rooms cold
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why. Aimee Bender
fire focus everyday
Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life. Aidan Quinn
fire police ems
In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other. Bill Pascrell
fire strange
For those without fire, any fire is strange fire. Bill Johnson
fire tree may
I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation. David Walker
fire gadgets whiskey
I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey Benedict Cumberbatch
fire answers speech
we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches. Beatrice Webb
fire water important
Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important. Bear Grylls
fire-burning black ships
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships. Barney Ross
firefighter people earth-day
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it. Barry Commoner
fire one-day vote
I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building. Barney Frank