Fire Quotes
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Ambitious people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread. Without ambitious people the world would never get up. They are busybodies who are about early in the morning, hammering, shouting, and rattling the fire-irons, and rendering it generally impossible for the rest of the house to remain in bed.
Jerome K. Jerome
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Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'
Brian Fallon
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'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
Craig Shirley
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Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.
Kimberly Michelle Pate
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.
Lauren Alaina
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To me, a writer is one of the most important soldiers in the fight for survival of the human race. He must stay at his post in the thick of fire to serve the cause of mankind.
Leon Uris
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This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.
Heraclitus
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I thought I would be in a band like Arcade Fire or be like Fiona Apple - but pop just made sense to me.
Hayley Kiyoko
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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
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That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.
Ben Carson
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A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
James Harrington
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The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.
Jakob Bohme
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
Jim C. Hines
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I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine.
Kurt Vonnegut
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The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
Arthur Potts Dawson
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The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called 'Boogie Express,' and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.
Jerry Leiber
