Quotes About House Burning Down

#1. It was an awkward moment. We were burning down our host's house, a situation which any guest seeks to avoid.

Tahir Shah

#2. I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

Robert Kirkman

#3. The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

Richard Leakey

#4. A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chilling.

Stephen Fry

#5. You will balance one another out. You're alike just enough to make the flames fly but keep them from burning down the house.

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#6. Your physical well being and thus your mental state, is God-given responsibility to you. Tending to them and get a clear sense of what your life is about before ashes and dust and you'll be having inner peace with your life

Daniel Gottlieb

#7. At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.

Graham Nelson

#8. 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

#9. When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.

Arianna Huffington

#10. Huh. Perhaps I was a bit too much of a dick the first two times I talked to her. Good thing she didn't know I briefly considered burning her house down.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#11. We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Tennessee Williams

#12. Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#13. I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

Bill Parcells

#14. If it's IN you to climb you must
there are those who MUST lift their eyes to the hills
they can't breathe properly in the valleys.

L.M. Montgomery

#15. Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are.

Alice Munro

#16. 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

#17. Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it's not real, that my house isn't burning down, that the deer aren't going to kill me.

Shannon Celebi

#18. ... my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

Luigi Pirandello

#19. Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose - though we may not understand it - and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

Margaret Weis

#20. Daemon," a voice whispered from the shadows of my front porch. "What in the world are you doing out here?" Debating on whether or not burning down a house next time they head to the store is a reasonable response to getting new neighbors? Yeah, I was gonna keep that one to myself.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#21. Really good musicians don't think of "self-reflection".

Dan Bejar

#22. What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Chuck Palahniuk

#23. Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.

Perrie Edwards

#24. I was not born this morning, Lannister."
"No, but you're like to die this afternoon.

George R R Martin