top of page
.png){kind=small}
Fire Quotes
"There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke."
113
"Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire."
94
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
61
"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
46
"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."
46
"Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire."
45
"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."
45
"We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it."
Fire,
45
"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."
41
"It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire."
40
"I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure."
Fire,
39
"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."
38
"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
38
"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."
37
"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."
37
"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
37
"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."
36
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
36
"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
35
"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."
34
"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."
34
"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
32
"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."
Fire,
32
"No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band."
32
"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
31
"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."
31
"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
30
"We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?"
30
"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."
30
bottom of page