Fire Kindling Quotes

#1. This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

Heraclitus

#2. His uniform sleeve was burned away and his arm seemed to be glowing from the inside, like a piece of kindling in a fire.
Fire wants to burn, Call thought.

Holly Black

#3. I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it.

Steven Wright

#4. Things come to those who wait
but only what was left by those who hussled

Someone

#5. What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice.

Gordon Brown

#6. The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#7. Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

Gladys Taber

#8. But Froi looked around with wonder.
As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.

Melina Marchetta

#9. Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Edmund Spenser

#10. Godly enthusiasm is not a fire of our own kindling ... If a man, however, has caught fire, let me not quench the Spirit by dampening the ardor of his pure devotion. Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

Peter Marshall

#11. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

#12. You can't throw kindling on a fire and deny you kept it burning. And right now, cowardice is that kindling.

Ilana Waters

#13. Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.

Daisaku Ikeda

#14. Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Paul Ryan

#15. If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

John Godfrey Saxe

#16. Later that year, when snow started to hide the front steps, when morning became evening as I sat on the sofa, buried under everything I'd lost, I made a fire and used my laughter for kindling: "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!" "Ha ha ha!

Jonathan Safran Foer

#17. We're kindling amid lightning strikes, a lit match and dry wood, fire danger signs and a forest waiting to be burned.

Nicola Yoon

#18. Sometimes people would feign friendship for as long as it suited them. However resentment built, like dry kindling, stacked around a fire - waiting for the spark to ignite it.

Martyn Stanley