On Fire Quotes

I have to take off my hat to Matt, he's trying crazy hard to get this fire started.

The family that prays together, still probably dies in the fire.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us.

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt.

Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage.

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.

You could start a small fire... with [photo] books I hate, and use that light to look at mine.

Doncaster will hit Villa with fire and broomstick.

Burnt child fire dredth.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

As a brave man goes into fire or flood or pestilence to save a human life, so a generous mind follows after truth and love, and is not frightened from the pursuit by danger or toil or obloquy.

We put a President up there, and then we set fire to him because he's not solving all our problems.

Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

The world is on fire.

Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

I wish the fire burned my leg hair off

My beef was with essentially being a product. I didn't want to be a product, so I tried to get fired, but they didn't fire me, which was weird.

If your fire begins to flame, don't spray water on it, which most people do. Instead, just close your dampers and the fire will go out because fire must have oxygen.

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles.

We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.

Anger is fire. It burns inside. It destroys.

We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

A sound precipitates air, then fire, then water and earth- and that's how the world becomes.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

For David Halberstam journalism was a calling, not a job. You couldn't fire him and he wouldn't quit.

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

I mean, I'd like to see (Mitt Romney's) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool - the Mormon fire patrol.

Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

What matters Death, if Freedom be not dead? No flags are fair, if Freedom's flag be furled. Who fights for Freedom, goes with joyful tread To meet the fires of Hell against him hurled.

Matt: I know you can cook. Meredith: What makes you so sure? Matt: Because less than an hour ago, you set me on fire.

I consider the opportunity to bear witness to the eloquent beauty of Baikida's music a distinct honor. Baikida Carroll is polarized; poised; at a matchless point between lyricism and fire.

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

A man doesn't have to be alive to start the fires of revolution.

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.

If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

Nothing smelled so good or danced so well as a birch fire.

Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.

The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it.

Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

She would grab whatever she could -a look , a whisper , a moan - to salvage from perishing , to perserve. But time is most unforgivving of fires , and she couldn't , in the end , save it all .

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I'd be happy.