Fire Quotes

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Character
- Water
- Heaven
English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- People
- English
- Fire

Against what should fire be opened? Against the obstacles which may delay the march of infantry. The first obstacle is the enemy gun. It will be the first objective assigned to artillery masses.

Ferdinand Foch
- May
- Enemy
- Gun
Fire Yourself. Outsource some of your life. Because you know what won't be cute on a tombstone? 'Her grind was impeccable, and she did it all by herself.'

Luvvie Ajayi
- Life
- She
- Cute
I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.

Jimmy Dean
- Time
- Good
- School
So they had language, and they had fire, and they had society. And about then she found an adjustment being made in her mind, as the word creatures became the word people. These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us.

Philip Pullman
- People
- Mind
- She
I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

Abraham Lincoln
- House
- Man
- Stop
Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.Till all around him desolation ringsAnd all the demons in the outer darkLook on amazed and recognizeThat vengeance is the business of a man.

Patrick Rothfuss
- Business
- Fire