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Fire Quotes

The spark that only shows itself under pressure.

This fire quotes page leans on the idea of a dormant spark that only blazes under adversity, alongside warmer images of hospitality and charity. See our Desire quotes for a related theme.

In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50...

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

Quotes by Agnes Smedley

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.

Quotes by Aesop

My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan's 'Star in the East' six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with...

Quotes by Adoniram Judson

Burn Quotes

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson II

I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I...

Quotes by Adele

When I was at 'SNL,' I would constantly get in arguments, 'Why aren't we more political? We're not going after Bush.' Then look what happened - that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.

Quotes by Adam McKay

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...

Quotes by Adam Carolla

Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.

Quotes by Ada Yonath

Desire Quotes

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Quotes by Ada Cambridge

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

Quotes by Ace Young

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

When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and...

Quotes by Abraham Kuyper

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

Quotes by Abraham Cahan

Firefighters Quotes

When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire,...

Quotes by Abigail Disney

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Quotes by Abbie Hoffman

I'm sure some of the characters in 'X-Men' had a lot of physically demanding stuff to do, but my character's pretty much stand-and-deliver, stand there and throw fire at people. There's no acrobatics or anything.

Quotes by Aaron Stanford

My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

Quotes by Aaron Paul

There must be a story within him/her that wants to come out. That's the reason why 'Dil Chahta Hai,' 'Lagaan,' and 'Rang De Basanti' worked so well: Ashutosh, Farhan, and Rakesh had a story inside them. It's very important that...

Quotes by Aamir Khan

Fireman Quotes

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

Quotes by A. S. Byatt

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote about fire and Christmas hospitality?
Yes - one quote describes Christmas as "a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart," linking warmth and generosity.
Is there a quote about inner strength described as fire?
Yes - a couple of similar quotes describe "a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity." For more on that kind of inner drive, see our Desire collection.
Is there a quote about fire and emergency services?
Yes, one quote discusses setting "minimum standards" for "police, fire and emergency services in all of America's major cities."
Do these quotes use fire as a metaphor for passion?
Yes - the recurring image of a spark of heavenly fire that "kindles up and beams and blazes" during hard times is a strong metaphor for resilience and inner passion. For more on that fiery drive, browse our Burn collection.
Where can I find more quotes about firefighters or fire-related professions?
For quotes honoring people who fight fires for a living, check out our Firefighters collection, or browse Fireman for related quotes.

For the more literal side of fire, browse our Firefighters and Fireman collections.