Quotes by Fire There's no smoke without fire. Georgy Zhukov smokegossipfire Fire consumes, but cold preserves. George R. R. Martin preservescoldfire The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man. Gerald Durrell ecosystemsfiremen The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears. Gerald Massey rainbowfireheart As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa. Gerald Durrell voicefiretree Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. Geraldine Jewsbury idolsfirelove-is Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. George Washington freedomfirewar I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in. Geraldine Brooks firehandsthinking A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. George Washington 4th-of-julygovernmentfire Look at the stars! Look, look up at the skies! Oh look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Gerard Manley Hopkins starsnaturefire Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more. George R. R. Martin firedarknight Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese. George R. R. Martin steelfireson All things therefore are charged with love, are charged with God and if we knew how to touch them give off sparks and take fire, yield drops and flow, ring and tell of him. Gerard Manley Hopkins yieldfiregiving I'm always at my best when I'm fighting a guy who insults me..questions my integrity; it lights more fire in me. Georges St-Pierre fightingfireintegrity Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy. Gertrude Atherton firemothermen If someone loves you and they leave and don't come back, it was never meant to be. If someone loves you and they leave and come back, set them on fire. George Carlin one-lovefirelove-you There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode. GG Allin burningfirewant As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame Gerard Manley Hopkins flamesnaturefire When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire. George MacDonald fireartmoving Greene wood makes a hott fire. George Herbert woodsfire«5657585960616263646566»
