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Top Quotes About Fire
Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
Greg Walden
Fire
Home
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton
Boss
Company
Customer
Fire
Money
Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.
Leonard Rose
Fire
Years
What a couple. I’m consumed into ashes. And he’s always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.
Agnes Smedley
Fire
But clearly, this is what this is about. It’s about pushing the security bubble out. It’s about rooting out every last guy, so that there’s not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.
David Petraeus
Fire
Security
If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.
Sun Myung Moon
America
Fire
God
Home
Illness
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be ‘liquidated’ or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
Walter Duranty
Fire
Labor
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.
David Bowie
Fire
World
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.
Andy Goldsworthy
Fire
To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
Richard H. Davis
Act
Fire
Men
Party
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George Eliot
Fire
Jealousy
Needs
Passion
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
John W. Foster
Fire
Genius
Power
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
Vito Fossella
Children
Daughters
Fire
Life
May
Sons
Want
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
Deep
Dream
Eyes
Fire
Old
Shadows
Sleep
I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
R. A. Salvatore
College
Fire
Thought
World
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
Matthew Simpson
Angels
Fire
Man
Spirits
Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.
Elsa Maxwell
Being
Church
Fire
Murder
People
Pressure
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, “You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.” As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
Mitch Hedberg
Business
Fire
Storytelling is what lights my fire.
Hope Davis
Fire
You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
Larry Brown
Fire
Life
Peace
Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.
Jean Racine
Eyes
Fire
Love
Silence
Soul
Voice
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
Ellen Goodman
Children
Divorce
Fire
They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.
Burt Lancaster
Fire
Fun
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Harry Houdini
Fire
Will
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
Behavior
Fire
Meaning
People
Physics
I’ve lost a little bit of my fire… I don’t want to say I’ve lost my passion.
Roger Clemens
Fire
Passion
Want
Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.
Roy L. Smith
Ability
Discipline
Fire
Talent
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fire
Thought
O, once in each man’s life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune’s gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates
Desire
Fire
Fortune
Guest
Heart
Hunger
Life
Luck
Man
Storms
Wit
I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn’t just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.
Jeremy Bulloch
Fire
Love
People
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
Richard M. Nixon
Fire
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that’s not too new.
Robert Service
Fire
Friends
Open
That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.
Timothy Garton Ash
Balance
Communication
Fight
Fire
Free speech
Question
Respect
World
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
Fire
Hindsight
Information
Intelligence
Time
Trying
Water
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
Margaret Walker
Age
Evil
Fire
Today
Word
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
Anais Nin
Coffee
Fire
Joy
Sun
The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.
Joshua Chamberlain
Enemy
Fire
Man
Now
Word
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
William Shakespeare
Fire
Love
Snow
Words
Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Fire
Jealousy
It wasn’t a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us.
Giuliana Sgrena
Fire
Light
You’re an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Franklin P. Jones
Fire
Old
Speech
World
I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton
Fire
First
Woman
We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.
Peter Akinola
Church
Faith
Fire
Rain
Will
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
Horace
Concern
Fire
Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I’ve played tough so much.
Izabella Scorupco
Fire
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Appearance
Fire
Loss
Pretty
Vigilance
Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
Envy
Fire
Men
Pride
Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Age
Fire
Youth
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin
Body
Fire
Food
Home
Mind
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.
Helena Petrova Blavatsky
Fire
Heart
Light
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