Fire Quotes

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
George Catlin

Sadness, Silence, Him

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon

Mind, Put, Learn

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.
Andrea Mitchell

Power, War, Political

Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
Jack Antonoff

Change, Strong, Said

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
Nancy Cartwright

Teachers, Substitute, Authorized

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
Louis Freeh

Time, Great, Trying

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.
John Lyly

Give, Reason, Wind

I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, 'Iron to the Fire.' I like to keep several things going at once.
Creed Bratton

Busy, Keep, College

Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.
Dorothea Benton Frank

Great, Book, Black

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Dorthea Brande

Mind, Rather, Filled

People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families' needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn't treat them well.
Andrew P. Harris

Health, Care, Job

As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.
Mohammed Omar

God, Future, Before

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele

Everything, Off, Tried

I put a lot of fire in my punches.
Rau'Shee Warren

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.
Thom Filicia

Until, Party, Shows

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.
John Jakes

Through, Before, Dark

These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
Henry Hudson

Good, Afraid, Taking

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.
Tom Watson

Fight, Rather, Move

Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
Camilla Lackberg

Writing, Enjoy, Why

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.
Martin Puryear

Freedom, Period, Incredible

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
Otto Weininger

Life, Enemy, Often

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
Guy Verhofstadt

Life, Great, Strength

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.
Ludovico Ariosto

Nature, Water, Nor

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.
Deion Sanders

Passion, Means, Dog

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.
Lynn Westmoreland

Women, Down, Group

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
Red Barber

Running, Bunny, Tail

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.
Dwight Howard

School, High, Nba

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
Benjamin Whorf

Through, Sometimes, Start

If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
Jean Nouvel

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
Thomas John Watson, Sr.

Experience, Him, Made

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