Burning Quotes

leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.'

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

Senator majority leader, Mitch McConnell, slammed [Donald] Trump's comments about burning the American flag which is protected under the first amendment should lead to jail time.

A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.

Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed?

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?

Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years.

I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.

Since I was young my wish has been to die in perfect health - I mean to die with a body that is not destroyed by illness but a body that is consumed by its own long burning fire.

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

If you are white, racism is too easily ignored and forgiven, regarded as of burning concern only to the ethnic minorities, and therefore of relatively marginal significance.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

Wild horses don't know the burning taste of the whips. Freedom protects us from the many evils!

Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him.

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

Focus. Focus. Focus...on your burning priorities. Say no to everything else. Life's short. You only get one shot at great.

It's too easy to get swept up; doing things because the opportunities are there, not because we're burning to do them.

If I were a Brazilian without land or money or the means to feed my children, I would be burning the rain forest too.

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.

Too bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind Edilio.

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

A Christian is not a skeptic. A Christian is a person with a burning heart, a heart set aflame with certainty of the resurrection.

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through.

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways.

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.

Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

People get upset when Baghdad, the "Cradle of Civilization" is burning, or when the Buddhas in Afghanistan are falling. These are real concerns.

I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.

If you haven't been to Burning Man, you should do it once. It's an extraordinary experience. Some of the best artwork I've ever seen in or out of a museum. Amazing.

There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."