Burn It Down Quotes

#1. Used to ride with him to Brooklyn, Lewis and Halsey, co chocolate thai, vernon style and burn it down

Nas

#2. Jace, on the other hand, looked like the sort of boy who'd come over to your house and burn it down for kicks.

Cassandra Clare

#3. 128We want both, to burn it down and be no one and to be recognized by the dog on the daily walk up the drive from work and we get both but never exactly when and how we imagined it.

Rebecca Solnit

#4. The feminist killjoy takes pleasure in the work of interrupting the patriarchal norms that pass as joy.
Burn it down! She gleefully lights the match.

Erin Wunker

#5. For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.

Pierce Brown

#6. "better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Harlan Coben

#7. If America don't come around, we're gonna burn it down.

Jamil Al-Amin

#8. Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let me hold your hand
And dance 'round and 'round the flames
In front of us
Dust to dust

The Civil Wars

#9. All he would say was that sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.

Kelly Braffet

#10. He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

Libba Bray

#11. Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.

Frank Luntz

#12. We each have a spark of life inside of us, that can start a fire. You can choose to burn down a room or to brighten it with light.

Jose N. Harris

#13. Did you think you could stop me?" Power shot from me, smacking into the door behind Dawson, blowing it off the hinges and into the house. "I'll burn the world down to save her.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. That thing that looks like me but isn't? He'll burn down the world if Sebastian wants him to, and laugh while he's doing it. That's what you're saving, Clary. That. Don't you understand? I'd rather be dead -

Cassandra Clare

#15. Dain could not decide what to do with Lady Wallingdon's invitation.
A part of his mind recommended he burn it.
Another part suggested he urinate on it.
Another advised him to shove it down Her Ladyship's throat.

Loretta Chase

#16. It is easier for a man to burn down his own house than to get rid of his prejudices.

Roger Bacon

#17. I mean, I'd like to see (Mitt Romney's) house burn, one of his millions of houses burning down. It would be kind of cool - the Mormon fire patrol.

Joy Behar

#18. Sheriff Root: "Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers"
Deputy: "How you reckon that, Sheriff Root?"
Sheriff Root: "Kinda thing they do"
Deputy: "What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that?"
Sheriff Root: "MARTIAN niggers

Garth Ennis

#19. I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

Margaret Atwood

#20. I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.

Lisa McMann

#21. Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back?

Matt Chandler

#22. Seriously, I don't care if feminists hunt me down and burn me at the stake, that man crooked his finger at me, I'd follow him into a bank and rob it at his side.

Kristen Ashley

#23. Your death defines my life. I want to find the love we never had and explicate it in your name.
I want to take your secrets public. I want to burn down the distance between us.
I want to give you breath.

James Ellroy

#24. I could not do it. I would not do it. I sat back on my heels with the book in my hand with the light of the fire flickering and dying down and realized that not even in mortal danger could I bring myself to burn a book.

Philippa Gregory

#25. Write down everything you fear in life.
Burn it.
Pour herbal oil with a sweet scent on the ashes.

Yoko Ono

#26. Someday we might look back with a curious nostalgia at the days when profligate homeowners wastefully sprayed their lawns with liquid gold to make the grass grow, just so they could then burn black gold to cut it down on the weekends.

Alok Jha

#27. Because that's what parents do, without even thinking about it, that's what parents do. They fill their children with love and understanding and compassion and knowledge so that when they're adults no one can extinguish them. They'll burn so bright they can't be brought down.

Kim Holden

#28. I don't care," Clary said. "He'd do it for me. Tell me he wouldn't. If I were missing-"
"He'd burn the whole world down till he could dig you out of the ashes. I know," Alec said.

Cassandra Clare

#29. I'd burn the world down if it would make you smile

Alex London

#30. Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. - JOAN CRAWFORD

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#31. If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

Marco Rubio

#32. What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.

Somaly Mam

#33. Fire in the fireplace is a wonderful thing. Fire on the carpet has the potential to burn down your house. Sex is like fire. In the right context, it is an awesome thing. But once it is outside the context it was designed for, sex can burn your life and relationships to the ground.

Andy Stanley

#34. If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Lou Holtz

#35. That kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up glory

Cassandra Clare

#36. The field that cannot feed even its tiller Burn down every stalk that stands on it.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#37. It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.

Ice-T

#38. Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

Steven Morrissey

#39. So when it comes down to it, a calorie is a calorie is a calorie: There is only one moral of the story: burn as many damn calories as possible whenever you work out.

Jillian Michaels

#40. Unless the grace of God comes to the help of our frailty, to protect and defend it, no man can withstand the insidious onslaughts of the enemy nor can he damp down or hold in check the fevers which burn in our flesh with nature's fire.

John Cassian

#41. Win," Leo said, "you'll burn the house down, just after it's been rebuilt. Give me the bloody matchbox."
She shook her head resolutely.
Are we starting a new springtime ritual?" Leo demanded. "The annual burning-of-the-manse?" Come to your senses, Win.

Lisa Kleypas

#42. There's only one time in your life when you can burn all the way down and walk away stronger. Waste your youth. That's what it's for. Don't hold back. Love until it hurts. The fire will fade. You're going to die.

Josh Wagner

#43. It was the purest heavens in the midst of the worst hell, and I loved every minute of it, even though it was all underpinned by a lie--my lie - and I knew one day it would burn down around me.

Sierra Simone

#44. That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

Daniel Handler

#45. Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Tod Goldberg

#46. Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

Sharon Stone

#47. I'm going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because of He is God.

John Green

#48. I felt it burn all the way down my throat and into my stomach. I felt like I was dying.

Jeannie Walker

#49. It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

Haruki Murakami

#50. If the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Douglas Wilson

#51. Mozart's music is free of all exaggeration, of all sharp breaks and contradictions. The sun shines but does not blind, does not burn or consume. Heaven arches over the earth, but it does not weigh it down, it does not crush or devour it.

Karl Barth

#52. The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down.

Salman Rushdie

#53. Wrong on that score. And efficiency is no guarantee of survival. Nor is intellect. What it takes to be the last one standing is an unquenchable hunger to live. He who wants it the most wins. It takes fire, willingness to burn down to your motherfucking core.

Karen Marie Moning

#54. He was dangerous - she felt it down in her very soul. The price of this young man's freedom would be forged from pain, death, and fire. "Yes," she said. The single word sealed her fate. Standing there on the steep Limerian cliffs, she was ready to watch the world burn.

Morgan Rhodes

#55. I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

Miranda Cosgrove

#56. If you really want to define civilization it should be a culture that doesn't destroy its environment. If you burn down the kitchen one day and expect to eat the next, it is not even intelligent, let alone civilized.

Sting

#57. I will bury myself alive. I will cut my skin to shreds. I swear I will, I will. And I'll burn this fucking house down if it means I can cut you loose, be free, be without Gavin Davis.

Heather Demetrios

#58. 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

#59. The kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory. ==========

Anonymous

#60. I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.

John Green

#61. Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.

Lana Del Rey

#62. I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

Sean Penn

#63. All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.

Shirley Jackson

#64. Love is fire. but whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house,you can never tell.

Joan Crawford

#65. I fully planned to burn the place down behind me on general principle. I was getting the hang of arson. It really sends a message, you know? Not only will I kill your dudes and steal your shit, but I will burn your place down behind me. Yes, I will.

Cherie Priest

#66. They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down.

Lewis Black

#67. We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

Rosa Parks

#68. The flame in her was slow and deep-he was going to incite it with the fire in himself; he was going to make a blaze to burn down cities, to lay waste cathedrals and castles and plain meetinghouses-to make a world where it was only him, and only her, and this bed, and one flesh.

Laura Kinsale

#69. I wouldn't be satisfied simply escaping from my prison of silence; I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison. Sometimes I get that way. It's a surprisingly useful frame of mind.

Scott Adams

#70. Calm down? Calm done! What is it about those two words that make the fury inside me burn hotter? It's as though a match is lit, setting every muscle, every nerve ending in my body, in flames. Calm down. Those simple words cause an entirely different response in a person than they should.

Ashley Stoyanoff

#71. The question with no answer. This is what you wished us to consider. But there was an answer. And you knew it. "What is our remedy against the robber, who so broke into our house?" We burn down the house-- with the robber inside.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#72. Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

Tony Robbins

#73. Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a huge vessel.
Do not overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain.

Gautama Buddha

#74. He definitely needed to teach her how to control her emotions, he thought wryly. It wouldn't do to have her burn down the entire forest if they became more intimate.

Dima Zales

#75. He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?

Catherynne M Valente

#76. Mal!"
"What?"
"Close the door down there and lock it," David yelled. "Don't you come up here under any circumstances. Not till I tell you it's okay. Understood?"
There was a pause then Mal yelled back. "What if there's a fire?"
"Burn.

Kylie Scott

#77. Allow me to add that it is my conviction that the contents of Der Stuermer as such were not (incitement). During the whole 20 years, I never wrote in this connection, 'Burn Jewish houses down; beat them to death.' Never once did such an incitement appear in Der Stuermer.

Julius Streicher

#78. I was getting the hang of arson. It really sends a message, you know? Not only will I kill your dudes and steal your shit, but I will burn your place down behind me.

Cherie Priest

#79. I'm not a slash-and-burn kind, and I'm also not a posterity kind. They just kind of exist on my hard drive. It's like walking down the street - what you leave behind is still there, even if you never go back and revisit it.

Alice Sebold

#80. The wild girl is with me always; she is my rage and my hunger, and if I live what passes for a decent life in this world, it is because I know to say no to the thing inside me that yearns, even now, to burn it all down.

Mary Stewart Atwell

#81. Nobody had seen a Djinni in decades. Now all it took to burn down a den of sin was a girl, a foreigner and a whole mess of drunks.

Alwyn Hamilton