Top 100 Bonfire Quotes
#1. Next year, when you return, you'll bring the ashes back and toss them onto that year's bonfire. In this way, each of us comes back to this place, bringing some of the past, leaving with some of the future.
Lurlene McDaniel
#2. A good thought is a spark,
a good desire is a flame,
and a good deed is a bonfire.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
Charles James
#4. Yeah? What're you planning?"
"She nixed the keg and the strippers, so I don't know. Maybe we'll have a bonfire and torch some furniture.
Jessica Martinez
#5. Wait. What? You kissed at the bonfire?" Ellen flushes and nods. "Seriously? You didn't tell me? What kind of crap best-friend rule book did you read, Ellen, because the one I've got has way different chapters as to how information is supposed to be handed over.
Anne Eliot
#6. A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along and tries to piss on it. But if you fall asleep and neglect it ... You'll wake up with ashes.
Zachary Taylor
#7. Being with my wife and children in Kauai, seeing old friends there, being on the beach, painting, paddleboarding. Sitting under a Kauai moon with a bonfire going, buddies around. Those are the things that kind of make my world turn.
Pierce Brosnan
#8. Of course nothing is ever done about a [presidential] commission report, except, they say, once a man at the state prison for the criminally insane actually read one once clear through. Then he did something about it. He made a bonfire that lasted a week.
Will Rogers
#9. You go to pray; to become a bonfire, a living flame, giving light and heat.
Josemaria Escriva
#10. The flames of the luau bonfire burned brightly. Sparks flew into the sky and disappeared before they reached the stars above. Near the horizon, the moon was large and round and flawless as porcelain.
Victoria Kahler
#11. Burn like a bonfire in whatever you do
Keith Lamb
#12. ...I was tired of throwing still more experiences onto the bonfire of my own confusion. It was bright enough already, and cast its light as far as I could see.
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Frank Huyler
#13. Sometimes love can happen in the blink of an eye. So fast that you barely notice it at first. It flickers like a tiny spark before roaring into a raging bonfire. And then it finally reaches that point you're covered in flames. I've been that way for a while. I feel like I've been burning forever.
Lauren Hammond
#14. I recommend you don't attend the wheat and chaff bonfire.
M.J. McGuire
#15. Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party I went to was lit by a bonfire. Acoustic guitar.
Miles Teller
#16. This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts
Make of so noble individual parts
One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts.
John Donne
#17. Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel ...
Sathya Sai Baba
#18. Love is a bonfire. It's every kind word. It's every sincere apology. It's every compromise.
Nessie Q.
#19. You three looking for something specific?" Her voice was surprisingly melodious.
"Any sacrificial knives?" Hi raised an index finger. "Nothing too fancy, and I'll need a no-slip grip. Me and the coven have some goats lined up for Saturday's bonfire."
I could've kicked him. I think I tried.
Kathy Reichs
#20. If any of you ... have a mind to make himself heard a mile off, you must make a bonfire of your reputations and a close enemy of most men who would wish you well.
John Jay Chapman
#21. The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'
Tom Hanks
#22. If there is no fog on the day you come home I will build a bonfire
So the smoke will make the cedars look the way you like them
Matthea Harvey
#23. Marco moves to close the distance between them, kissing away her tears before catching her lip with his own.
As he kisses her, the bonfire glows brighter. The acrobats catch the light perfectly as they spin. The entire circus sparkles, dazzling every patron.
Erin Morgenstern
#24. Knowledge and education are the key to this human tragedy which is a bonfire of hate fueled by ignorance.
Christina Engela
#25. Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#26. When I met you on the beach, it was chance. When we sat together at the bonfire, it was circumstance; but when you fell in love with me, it was fate.
Mia Castile
#27. I won't be at the bonfire," Dair repeated stubbornly....
But Dair would not go. He didn't dare. Fia in firelight would drive even the sanest man to sin.
Lecia Cornwall
#28. I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.
Peter Capaldi
#29. The whole calamity would be in one of those police reports that D. B. Sinclair and his "concerned citizens" filed carefully under "T" for "Things" at the back of a locked filing cabinet in the vehicle-licensing centre a day before a bonfire got accidentally out of control.
Kate Griffin
#30. The scent of new-mown grass wafted on the warm breeze, mingled with the smoke of leaves burning on a distant bonfire. The scents and sounds of an English summer Sunday, unchanged for centuries, Ben thought. Polite
Rhys Bowen
#31. With patience and persistence, even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life. In fact, that's how most bonfires begin - as a simple spark.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#32. When I am alone and my skull is ripsaw I want to jump into the womb of any bonfire, I want to leap into the ceiling fan head first, but I need that fan this coming summer.
Derrick Brown
#33. If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is an electric toaster thrown intentionally into a Jacuzzi, then Paris Hilton s a strobe light in an epilepsy ward.
Cintra Wilson
#34. Live a life of love, of passion of desire, of free will. Take a chance, take the leap, and jump head first into the abyss. Start a flame in your bonfire
heart, and show the world your passion.
Steven Aitchison
#35. The territorial anger lit his chest up like a bonfire, teeing off a blaze of power that roared in his body.
J.R. Ward
#36. Talk about insanity. Being attracted to deVries was like a month saying, "Hey, let's go check out that awesome bonfire".
Cherise Sinclair
#37. I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.
Daniel Handler
#38. It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.
Warren Eyster
#39. Come on, Aimee! If it's not Kes hauling you off to have his wicked way with you, then you're giving him these scorching looks across the bonfire. Hell, it makes me want to go take a cold shower, which is interesting seeing as you're a girl and I'm gay.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#40. You light the Spark in my Bonfire Heart.
James Blunt
#41. Among the Dagara, darkness is sacred. It is forbidden to illuminate it, for light scares the Spirit away ... . The one exception to this rule is the bonfire.
Malidoma Patrice Some
#42. I walk through the streets as if I was burning in some eternal bonfire.
Floriano Martins
#43. So what is the best vegetable? Well, we all know that: it's the potato. The vegetable you can't screw up. You can throw a potato into a bonfire, run away from it - and, an hour later, it's turned into a meal. Try doing that with broccoli, or a trifle, and it will laugh in your face.
Caitlin Moran
#44. The dog sniffed at the bonfire like a ship with a wet nose docking at a foreign port. -Mgru
Stephen Moles
#45. When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Shunryu Suzuki
#46. This used to be about sex. The literature of my people was pornography, filled with cries for mercy, drama enacted on people without prolonged negotiation, partners engaged in a dance in the middle of a bonfire. Now, it's 300-page manuals about how to make sure nothing bad will happen.
Laura Antoniou
#47. I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other.
Thomas Jefferson
#48. A bonfire was burning nearby, and love was Ty's hand around mine, warm and fast, binding us together.
Ann Aguirre
#49. From ragbag, stumblebum, peripatetic lout
To bonfire of catnip that burns itself out
Bristled sack of hiss & claws
Cinched at the maw
B.J. Ward
#50. In the process of creating what we want, in pursuit of our happiness, we are just destroying the very source of our life, this planet; we are making a bonfire out of it. But still we are not satisfied, nor are we any more joyful than what people were five hundred years ago.
Sadhguru
#51. When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse
#52. The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
Adam Savage
#53. If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
I love you.
Spike Milligan
#54. There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
Scott McCloud
#56. And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
Bayard Taylor
#57. On this night of the Harvest Moon. They tossed bones into the "Bone Fire" and asked the yellow moon to shine its protection over them. (Today we call it a "Bonfire")
Nancy B. Brewer
#58. Hope throws a smokescreen. Smoke gets in your eyes and so no one is prepared for it, but suddenly it;s there, like an out-of-control bonfire - like murder, only multiplied. It's in full spate.
Margaret Atwood
#59. When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
Darin Strauss
#60. The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.
Terence McKenna
#61. I think you cannot root out love entirely. I think where there has been love, there will always be embers, as the remains of a bonfire outlast the flame.
Cassandra Clare
#62. I never saw any people who appeared to live so much without amusement as the Cincinnatians ... Were it not for the churches, ... Ithink there might be a general bonfire of best bonnets, for I never could discover any other use for them.
Frances Trollope
#63. But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down ... this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up it's stump-this tree lived!
It lived! And nothing could destroy it.
Betty Smith
#65. The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler's kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me. Tyler tells me to come back and be with him. My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road.
Chuck Palahniuk
#66. Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you - a stick.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#67. A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
Jodi Picoult
#68. The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake.
What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.
Rick Riordan
#69. I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.
Jessica Pare
#70. The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.
Thomm Quackenbush
#71. Then I reached the second building and saw the conflagration. A bonfire twenty feet high. The wreck of a Hummer, its carcass barely visible behind the veil of flame.
Joseph Finder
#72. Everyone had something disparaging to say about the unfortunate Maltyshcheva, and the conversation began crackling merrily like a kindling bonfire.
Leo Tolstoy
#73. A little light in the dark night
A faint voice is calling you
This way! This way!
This flickering, wavering little voice
Like dew, like a bonfire
The voice of insects
the sound of the water
You can never lose them
once you've heard them ...
Natsumi Mukai
#74. The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They're laughing. Talking shit. Enjoying the fact that they've tried to play with my life. Yelling. Loud shouts. It's near me, but the chaos controlling me makes it incoherent.
Katie McGarry
#75. Edward Campbell Lowe was a radical in his blood and in his bones... his maternal grandfather had famously made a bonfire with a valuable portrait of the Marquess of Bute because, he had declared, it was more than a man could stomach to encounter a Tory every morning before breakfast.
Clare Clark
#76. I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.
Douglas Rushkoff
#77. No one becomes a bestseller by tossing every other potential blockbuster on a bonfire and assassinating other authors.
Damon Suede
#78. Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#79. She's like a bonfire on the darkest night of the year, a bonfire on a prairie in a snowstorm. You can't help yourself, you're going to turn in her direction, and she's doing nothing to make this happen.
Jeanne Ray
#80. I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
Wilfrid Laurier
#81. It wasn't that she necessarily wanted to "socialize" at the bonfire, but she wanted to broadcast to the general population that her antisocial behavior was a personal choice not a sentence to social leprosy.
J.D. Stroube
#82. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#83. The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#84. Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#85. I was astonished at the effect my successful landing in France had on the nations of the world. To me, it was like a match lighting a bonfire.
Charles Lindbergh
#86. We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this too was added to the bonfire. Also the works of that decadent lesbian Bolshevik, Jane Austen.
Stephen Fry
#87. Many lions is a pride; many crows is a murder; many bumbles is a throcket; many dragons is a bonfire.
Stephen King
#88. Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy ... As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.
Deepak Chopra
#89. The theory of relativity doesn't amount to a hill of beans when there's a bonfire in your shorts.
Lois Greiman
#90. And because we look for the bonfire, we miss the candle. Because we listen for the shout, we miss the whisper. But it is in burnished candles that God comes, and through whispered promises he speaks: "When you doubt, look around; I am closer than you think.
Max Lucado
#91. A good thought is a spark in the world,
a good desire is a flame in the sky,
and a good deed is a bonfire in the universe.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#92. Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
Benjamin Bratt
#93. Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.
Catherine Doherty
#94. I was once more face to face with the big bonfire that occupies the kernel of our system.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#95. Love doesn't spurt up like an instant bonfire, consuming all reason, it flickers and falters, and sometimes almost goes out. The fact that it doesn't go out, despite all the rain that fall on it
that's love.
V.C. Andrews
#96. What most people find festive - a weekend at a beach shack with friends, a boat trip down a river, a crackling bonfire on a summer night - I see as a bleak nightmare to be grimly endured. I would sooner put lit cigarettes in my eyes than share a vacation house with a crowd.
Jancee Dunn
#97. I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.
Jessica Pare
#98. Most fires crackle and pop, but that's not really the fire talking, it's the wood. To hear the fire itself you need a huge blaze like this one, a furnace so powerful it roars with its own wind. I crouched as close as I dared and listened to its voice, a whispered howl of joy and rage.
Dan Wells
#99. All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles
and ghosts of men, and spirits
behind those birds of flame.
I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes,
I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
Ada Limon
#100. As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.
Terence McKenna
