Fire Quotes

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.