Fire Quotes

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.

~ Ovid

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

~ T. S. Eliot

Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.

~ Neil Macgregor

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

~ Bernard Williams

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

~ Washington Irving

I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

~ Bonnie Mckee

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

~ Pitbull

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

~ Morrissey

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

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.

~ Hal Borland

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

~ John Keats

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.

~ Jack W. Szostak

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

~ Alicia Keys

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

~ Meryl Streep

What I've learned is that unless it's an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you're repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.

~ Gloria Steinem

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'

~ Bill Maher

I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

~ James Mcavoy

Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?

~ Caroline Paul

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

~ Plutarch

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

~ Henry Van Dyke

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.

~ Naveen Jain

Genius is initiative on fire.

~ Holbrook Jackson

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

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

~ Benjamin Franklin

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

~ Margaret Fuller

Barbecue is the good old technique of people making a fire and putting some stuff over the top - I mean, look at the S'more: it's just got a stick. A lot of those goofy toys, it's people who are looking at things to do. I think if you focus on the food, at the most you need tongs or a spoon to flip something; that's about it.

~ Graham Elliot

Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.

~ Jason Silva

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

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

~ Greg Graffin

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

~ Delmore Schwartz

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

~ Mae West

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

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

~ Bob Nelson

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

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

~ George R. R. Martin

To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund.

~ Mark Sanchez

There's such a good vibe in Minneapolis. You've got an upscale downtown, and yet people aren't afraid to sit around the fire pit in the middle of winter and drink a beer. It's amazing.

~ Philip Winchester

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

~ Nikola Tesla