Burned By Fire Quotes

#1. When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Fire can destroy, fire can kill, but it can also create. Forest burned in the summer will be green by spring, better and stronger than before. Cal's flame will build and bring roots from the ashes of war.

Victoria Aveyard

#3. The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

Huston Smith

#4. And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine
Burned like the ruby fire set
In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine,
Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,
Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet
With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Only a fool gets burned twice by the same fire.

Jay Crownover

#6. One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.

Anonymous

#7. Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

Ellen Glasgow

#8. If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

Jim Butcher

#9. With mouths agape, they stared in awe at the floor of fire and wall of flame. Atop a horse of golden flames that whipped and licked the leather reins, untouched by the fire that twisted and burned, sat Heimdallr, guardian of the Bilrost.

Angela B. Chrysler

#10. Gari in Russian means "burn!" ... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.

Romain Gary

#11. With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.

Gustave Flaubert

#12. A brand from a brand | is kindled and burned, And fire from fire begotten; And man by his speech | is known to men, And the stupid by their stillness.

Anonymous

#13. Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Joshua Homme

#14. Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire,
I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished
outside me, it besets and consumes me inside,
and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#15. Oh, Red. If you want to turn up the heat, you've got to be careful not to get burned by the fire.

Courtney Cole

#16. {5:5} And they were trapped by him in the towers, and he took up a position near them, and he anathematized them, and he burned their towers with fire, along with all who were in

The Biblescript

#17. Now, having left cities behind me, turned
Away forever from the strange, gregarious
Huddling of men by stones, I find those various
Great towns I knew fused into one, burned
Together in the fire of my despising ...

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#18. There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Ray Kurzweil

#19. The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#20. He could have set fire to it, the garden was dry enough, and burned it clean - privet, vines, and weeds; but he waited in his rooms through the winter instead, weeping and dreaming.

William H Gass

#21. She's fire...but she will not burn you. She knows all too well how it feels to live with ashes.

Alfa H

#22. The blond cornfields were red gold, the haystacks turned rosy and threw long shadows. The whole prairie was like a bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.

Willa Cather