FIRE QUOTES

• O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
  ~ William Shakespeare ~
• But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
  ~ Sir Walter Raleigh ~
• God sends children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race - to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affection; to give our shoulds higher aims; to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion and to bring round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. My soul blesses the great Father, every day, that he has gladdened the earth with little children
  ~ Mary Howitt ~
• Why fight fire with fire when you could just put it out?
  ~ Nwabugwu Chukwudumebi ~
• If you wanna get pleasure from causing people pain Remember that before the matchstick ignite anything It is the first to get on fire and it can crush before it's victim.
  ~ Niyitanga Pacifique ~
• Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire.
  ~ George Gordon Byron ~
• I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.
  ~ Dorothy Parker ~
• I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
  ~ Anonymous ~
• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
  ~ William Butler Yeats ~
• Avarice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On Fire.
  ~ Dante Alighieri ~
• As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
  ~ William Blake ~
• Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
  ~ Samuel Butler ~
• All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.
  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
• All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
  ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
• The tongue is a silent master of fire that set's ablaze nations and culture
  ~ Precious Moses ~
• A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.
  ~ Kevin Mitnick ~
• I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind - you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.
  ~ Criss Angel ~
• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
  ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven ~
• Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.
  ~ James Taylor ~
• Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.
  ~ James Taylor ~
• I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
  ~ Jamie Oliver ~
• In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
  ~ Christian Nestell Bovee ~
• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• It is not light that we need, but fire it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
  ~ Frederick Douglass ~
• There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?
  ~ Andrea Jung ~
• Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
  ~ Ann Landers ~
• Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
  ~ Ann Landers ~
• Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
  ~ Ann Landers ~
• The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'
  ~ Conan O'brien ~
• If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?
  ~ Imran Khan ~
• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
  ~ Thomas Mann ~
• The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.
  ~ Steven Patrick Morrissey ~
• In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
  ~ Alexander Hamilton ~
• In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
  ~ Alexander Hamilton ~
• The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.
  ~ Scott Walker ~
• Every study on crime and or firearms proves time and time again, that 99.99999% of American gun owners do not commit crimes or use our firearms in any dangerous or improper way.
  ~ Ted Nugent ~
• I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
  ~ Ted Nugent ~
• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
  ~ Nathan Fillion ~
• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
  ~ Nathan Fillion ~
• If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.
  ~ David Mamet ~
• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
  ~ Plutarch ~
• In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public.
  ~ Jenson Button ~
• Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process.
  ~ Joseph Gordon-levitt ~
• Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.
  ~ Cher ~
• Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
  ~ Francis Ford Coppola ~
• Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
  ~ Francis Ford Coppola ~
• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
  ~ Bill Maher ~
• Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
  ~ Bill Maher ~
• When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.
  ~ Jeanne Moreau ~
• It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
  ~ William Tecumseh Sherman ~
• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
  ~ William Tecumseh Sherman ~
• For now, I'm just going to keep doing the work and hope I don't get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, I'll love it.
  ~ Ryan Gosling ~
• When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
  ~ Whoopi Goldberg ~
• Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.
  ~ Robert Orben ~
• I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
  ~ Newt Gingrich ~
• I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
  ~ Newt Gingrich ~
• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
  ~ Kin Hubbard ~
• Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
  ~ Rita Rudner ~
• A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
  ~ Mae West ~
• One must place ones heart in a freezer in order to preserve it from the fire, love fire.
  ~ Martina Rimbaldo ~
• The glimmer of hope getting reflected from the fire of the candle is just piercing the very fine soul of ours to make us saunter towards the untrampled ways of our lives!!
  ~ Subha Laxmi Moharana ~
• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
  ~ Gary Oldman ~
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
  ~ Bruce Lee ~
• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
  ~ Bruce Lee ~
• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
  ~ Adam Carolla ~
• 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.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• 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.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• 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.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• 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.
  ~ Albert Schweitzer ~
• I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
  ~ Steven Wright ~
• It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
  ~ Horace ~
• While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
  ~ Ron Wyden ~
• While Free Choice Vouchers didn't fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family's health insurance costs.
  ~ Ron Wyden ~
• It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
  ~ Sylvester Stallone ~
• It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
  ~ Sylvester Stallone ~
• 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 ~
• The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
  ~ Dave Barry ~
• Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
  ~ Donald Trump ~
• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
  ~ Rush Limbaugh ~
• Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.
  ~ Rush Limbaugh ~
• This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
  ~ Benjamin Carson ~
• What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.
  ~ Jeffrey Kluger ~
• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
  ~ Charles Dickens ~
• Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
  ~ Charles Dickens ~
• What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
  ~ Joan Rivers ~
• 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 ~
• Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
  ~ George Carlin ~
• The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
  ~ George Carlin ~
• Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
  ~ George Carlin ~