Quotes
Quotes about Fire
Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.
I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.
You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire-- No milk and honey there, but tears and blood Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire, And left a worse than desert where they passed.
This ae nighte, this ae nighte Every nighte and all; Fire and sleete, and candle lighte And Christe receive thye saule.
There are only two kinds of coachesâthose who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)
They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires; All through her silent watches, gliding slow, Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
O Cicero, I have seen tempests when the scolding winds Have rived the knotty oaks, and I have seen Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds; But never till to-night, never till now, Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
An' all us other children, when the supper things is done, We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun A-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at Annie tells about An' the gobble-uns 'at gits you Ef you Don't Watch Out!
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.
So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would, It doth forget to do the thing it should; And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.
The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]
Come watch with me the shaft of fire that glows In yonder West: the fair, frail palaces, The fading Alps and archipelagoes, And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas.
Forming and breaking in the sky, I fancy all shapes are there; Temple, mountain, monument, spire; Ships rigged out with sails of fire, And blown by the evening air.
Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together.
The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, "Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide."
Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Do villainy, do, since you protest to do't, Like workmen. I'll example you with thievery: The sun's a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast sea; the moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun; The sea's a thief, whose liquid surges resolves The moon into salt tears; the earth's a thief, That feeds and breeds by a composture stol'n From gen'ral excrement.
It is never too late to be what you might have been. â¢George Eliot It takes time to build a castle. â¢Irish Proverb A minute now is better than a minute later. â¢Anonymous Time is of the essence, but what is the essence of time? â¢Karan Varsheni Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday. â¢Anonymous I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer. â¢Dan Quisenberry Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like an orange. â¢Unknown If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late. â¢Anonymous To be on time is to be late. To be early is to be on time. â¢Tim Gunter The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time. â¢Leo Kennedy Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end? â¢Stoppard Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. â¢Berlioz One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. â¢Anonymous You may delay, but time will not. â¢Benjamin Franklin With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. â¢Chinese proverb Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. â¢Cheers You can never plan the future by the past. â¢Edmund Burke Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. â¢Roger Babson The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. â¢Paul Valery Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. â¢M Scott Peck Time is the fire in which we burn. â¢Gene Roddenberry You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. â¢Charles Buxton Time ripens all things. No man's born wise. â¢Cervantes Imagine a donut, fired from a cannon at the speed of light while rotating. Time is like that, except without the cannon and the donut. â¢Dilbert Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. â¢Will Rogers You can fool too many of the people too much of the time. â¢James Thurber Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. â¢Thomas Mann Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. â¢W N Taylor Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered ... deeply, ... finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
