Quotes About The Fire Hydrant

#1. Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

Bob Beckel

#2. The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

Jeff Rich

#3. I won't take advantage of you. Today, I'll be your friend."
"Fen has been my friend for decades," she said, sliding her arm into his when he offered it to her. "And he never presumed to put his mouth on mine."
"Obviously I'll be a different kind of friend.

Nalini Singh

#4. If you find physical pleasure in earthly experiences, use the occasion to praise God for these gifts. Turn your love not on the pleasures but toward their Maker.3 Otherwise, the things that please you will cause you to displease. Love those souls that please you, but love them in God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#5. It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.

Jay-Z

#6. We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

Joseph Joubert

#7. A fire hydrant is not something you want to lose, especially in an emergency.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#8. Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal ... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

Richard Brautigan

#10. God dispenses his goodness not with an eyedropper but a fire hydrant. Your heart is a Dixie cup, and his grace is the Mediterranean Sea. You simply can't contain it all. So let it bubble over. Spill out. Pour forth. And enjoy the flood.

Max Lucado

#11. So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Orson Scott Card

#12. The old woman had an old dog, but he hardly counted any more. He was so old that he looked like a stuffed dog. Once I took him for a walk down to the store. It was just like taking a stuffed dog for a walk. I tied him up to a stuffed fire hydrant and he pissed on it, but it was only stuffed piss.

Richard Brautigan

#13. The devil's purpose in the past was to keep Christ away from the world. Having failed that goal, the only option left to him is to keep the world away from Christ. He does so by sprinkling lies with truths and half-truths to create doubt in our minds about the faithfulness and glory of God. Paul

David Jeremiah

#14. Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Bell Hooks

#15. My interest in acting was overwhelming, but I wasn't thinking, "I'm going to California and I'm going to become a movie star." Things were different then. I lived just for the moment, and whatever happened, happened.

Louise Fletcher

#16. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Mitchell Kapor

#18. I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

Antonya Nelson

#19. Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Ben Nelson

#20. Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking what a fire hydrant feels about dogs.

Ann Landers

#21. A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

Frank Miller

#22. Sometimes I feel like a fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs.

William J. Clinton

#23. I shouldn't brag, but I'm one of the top experts in my field."
She swallowed. "Of shark sex, you mean."
"Well, that, too. Anything you want to know on the subject, Sharona ... anything"
he pulled back a sexy half grin
"I'd be happy to enlighten you.

Ophelia London

#24. Our intention is to give people, however you might stylize it, a tax cut or a pay raise.

Paul O'Neill

#25. Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures.

Kate Moss

#26. Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

Louis Freeh

#27. Chuck is a short guy but he works out a lot, so as a result he's built like a fire hydrant. Most of the time he acts like a fire hydrant, too.

David Levithan

#28. Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant!

Jessica Simpson

#29. The modern spectacle of vanished forests and eroded lands, wasted petroleum and ruthless mining, national debts recklessly increased until they are repudiated, and continual revision of positive law, is evidence of what an age without veneration does to itself and its successors.

Russell Kirk

#30. If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.

Dennis Vickers

#31. To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

James Hillman

#32. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Steven Wright