Fires Quotes

“I don’t eat cauliflower,” said Tizzard after thinking about it for a while. “My dad says that ‘a cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education’.”
“I think that’s Mark Twain,” said Windflower.
“And my dad,” said Tizzard.”
― Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

“To those out on their own paths, setting little fires.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

“You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world with objects and ideas that will outlive them, and you suddenly glimpse the fires that burn below human despair.”
― Greg Baxter, The Apartment

“Men are like fires, they go out when you stop being in touch with your sensuality.”
― Lebo Grand

“You are the mark on my liquid heart
where love begins with the beginning’s start
You are the desire of the ablaze fires
the only truth from ten-thousand-liars

From the poem- A Letter to My Love”
― Munia Khan, Beyond The Vernal Mind

“Fires! Fires everywhere!
Surrounding me, the smoke and glare!
I breathe it in day after day.
Send rain! Please wash it all away!
God sighs, “Oh, now you choose to pray?”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Sometimes your most remarkable testimony is that you went through the fires of life and did not come out smelling like smoke. If you are in a season of struggle, know that someone else down the line will need your testimony to make it through their difficulty.”
― Tony Warrick

“Tendrils of jarring orange tainted the heavens,
warped into tattered remnants of distorted nebulas, the antithetical sunset thrown into macabre shadows of disarray until it became whole, but always broken, a growing mass that rushed sickeningly nearer, as I stared in horrified disbelief through the screen glass door in our living room.”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, Peter

“Most fires made by underestimated sparks, the greatness fire inside ourselves is lit by the spark of the change, came across a small corner in our souls where the conscience still whispering.”
― عمار موسى, رحلة إلى ما وراء القمة

“Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to know how to fan them the right way.”
― Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires

“My body shakes with a million different fires. Feet that look like yours warp and the corns split so you see craters of infinite variety, some pus-filled Lake Toba. The weakness in my limbs, the thick weight on my head and chest and the slow burning inside me that never reaches the skin, bring me closer to you. My afflictions bring me closer to you.”
― Jinat Rehana Begum, First Fires

“We were on duty. We had jobs to do. When all hell breaks loose, we are the ones who run into the fires of hell, not away from it.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Not for nothing, guys, but a nuke will cause fires within a fifty-mile radius. We will need to be a lot further, if we plan to escape unscathed.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Hunger was by now as natural as walking, and we walked out of the yard and into the streets of the old city, scruffy, and beautiful, and grimy at the same time, lit up by the fires of food vendors with their clouds of sweet smoke hawking the flavors louder than the blaring brassy women tending their flames and selling the foods.”
― Milan Sime Martinic, Ironway: Watching Over Benjamin Hill -

“When a corrupt government fires all the good people, you are left with all the bad people.”
― Steven Magee

“In this year of riots I am called to duty
Through this year of angers I have gripped a meaning
In this year of lies and angers burning out of control I went out and met history on its own terms
And I have come back to tell you what I saw:
Uprisings everywhere—they'll riot anytime—anything goes that'll feed a flame;
Warnings unheeded—stopwatches hurtling—direct lies expected and received—

Fires burning out of control in the streets

"WHO'S THAT OUT THERE IN THAT STRANGE RED LIGHT?"

"We call you to answer for your indiscretions, Mr. Johnson."

The time has come for me to have it out with America on the battlefields of my ancestry.
In my short lifetime I have seen America lose faith in her own greatness—
This year of riots and angers burning out of control announces one great covenant broken: The summit once reached and past, the terror begins.”
― Charles Upton, Panic Grass

“Increased lightning is causing increased forest fires.”
― Steven Magee

“The California forest fires may lead to increased disease rates in their population.”
― Steven Magee

“Blanket the sky in ash and you will walk on a plain of embers.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“For further reference: I go to love
like a fire engine to a three-alarm, flashing

and spinning, yelling across town. Nothing
to be afraid of: the ceiling falling, windows

concave, doors bowed and stiff.”
― C. Prudence Arceneaux

“Florida fires honest people.”
― Steven Magee

“Electric car fires are very difficult to extinguish.”
― Steven Magee

“Solar photovoltaic fires can be really nasty!”
― Steven Magee

“It is almost impossible to put some solar photovoltaic fires out until it goes dark.”
― Steven Magee

“Walmart has had so many solar photovoltaic fires on their stores that they tried to have them removed from all stores through legal action with the installer.”
― Steven Magee

“Badly built solar photovoltaic systems do not age well.”
― Steven Magee

“The high voltage electrical utility system has been causing wildfires ever since it was invented by Nikola Tesla.”
― Steven Magee

“God thunders and kindles fires to endure and vanquish the eternal nothing in Himself.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, Svet u nigdini

“It got to be a tradition: we set fires when we're happy, we set fires when we're not, we set fires when we've got nothin' better to do. It got so the city itself stepped in. It burns itself down. Houses combust spontaneously, entire blocks go up in flames at our city's will.”
― Catherine Leroux, The Future

“Grown-ups were always worrying about money, she knew that, but what did you need if you could eat and sit in front of the fire and read books?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Tanglewreck