Sitting Around The Fire Quotes

#1. You and me Haymitch.Very cozy.Picnics, birthdays, long winter nights sitting around the fire retelling old Hunger Games tale.
-Peeta Mellark

Suzanne Collins

#2. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

Harlan Coben

#3. And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Stephen King

#4. When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

Melanie Gideon

#5. The social function of narrative is not limited to 'primitive' people sitting around the fire telling each other where Fire came from and why they're sitting around it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#6. Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

Andrei Sakharov

#7. Children are far more interesting to work with than grownups. They're incredibly honest. They'll tell you exactly what they think.

Tim Sample

#8. I sustain myself with the love of family.

Maya Angelou

#9. Perhaps the fire had destroyed everything and we would go back tomorrow and find that the past six years had been burned and they were waiting for us, sitting around the dining-room table waiting for Constance to bring them their dinner.

Shirley Jackson

#10. There's a big difference between keeping the peace, which is something folks do pretty well themselves, and enforcing the law, which is another thing altogether.

L. Neil Smith

#11. The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

Dennis Prager

#12. I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

#13. Did love really require grand gestures? Wasn't true love to be found in the little things, like holding one's hand or sitting comfortably around a gentle fire?

Maya Rodale

#14. This lifestyle provides the mobility to choose your locations just on a whim. Mobility is freedom to explore. With an RV all you need to do is find a place to park and wander as long as you like. Home is there when you need to relax and refresh.

Beth Inman

#15. Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. But what if time worked the other way around?
What if what his adolescent self had felt then was the ghost of his present one, sitting here on a sagging bench, beckoning him into his future?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#17. She lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.

Nora Roberts

#18. One day, when you are sitting with my sister, Mahgen, around a fire, and you're feeling how perfectly right it is to be next to her, this moment, this tease of desire between us, will be long forgotten.

Madison Thorne Grey

#19. I've got different ideas of complete happiness. But one is being by myself out in a forest, completely happy. Another is walking with a dog in some nice place. And three is sitting around preferably a fire, but not necessarily, and drinking red wine with friends and telling stories.

Jane Goodall

#20. When we go to the fair in disguise, we never win at archery or at singlestick. We do get some nice compliments on our disguises, but no more than that.

Peter S. Beagle

#21. You're allowed to manipulate the environment, but not the character.

Sean Platt

#22. The old fire pit was ancient. I couldn't say how many of my ancestors warmed themselves at this outdoor hearth. Sitting around it was rather affecting, especially when you thought about the countless people who had occupied your very spot in some distant past. It was kind of surreal.

J.M. Northup

#23. A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

Margaret Mitchell

#24. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .

R.D. Laing

#25. All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

Clive James

#26. Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.

Robyn Davidson

#27. American people are very patriotic, but there is no driver to get behind and support. I don't see why Formula One cannot be something America is a part of. I wouldn't say it's too European at all.

Alexander Rossi