Quotes
Quotes about Fire
In either fire or ocean only rest lay. When the point of light could grow and renew the known globe of air
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire - then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
Absence diminishes commonplace passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.
Contentment consisteth not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Hot lead can be almost as effective coming from a linotype as from a firearm.
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
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?
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
Absence is to love what wind is to a fire; it puts out the little, it kindles the great.
Tolerance and celebration of individual differences is the fire that fuels lasting love.
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears Do scald me like molten lead.
