Flame Quotes - page 13

O mother! hear thy country's plea: Nurture thy sons with spirits strong Led by the torch of truth whose flame Will banish ignorance and wrong. (Ilia Chavchavadze)
It was devotion to the sea, wedded to a fire of pent-up patriotism struggling incessantly for an outlet in strenuous physical expression; a humanity, born of acute sensitiveness to his own limitations, only adding fuel to the flame. View quote
Robert Erskine Childers
It is a bitter thing that each of us must finally be blown out like a candle, and have the unique ardor of his individual flame choked off, and sucked utterly away like smoke in the dark. Do we ever accept this in our hearts, any of us? The waste of knowledge! It never ceases to be...infuriating. View quote
Michael Shea
In flame and smoke the wondrous city sinks! Her walls are gone! her palaces are dust! The desert is around her, and within! Like shadows have the mighty passed away! View quote
Edwin Atherstone
The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye and disappears in its own brightness. Like a flame, whose meaning is light but whose centre is dark, it demands to be undefined. View quote
Alice Oswald
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. View quote
Angelina Grimke
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame. View quote
Anya Seton
I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. View quote
Bob Uecker
I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that. View quote
Clive Davis
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb. View quote
Debra Winger
A lot of actors flame out. (George Hamilton)
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. View quote
Jane D. Hull
Stories of all lengths and depths come from different parts of the cave. For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder. View quote
Jane Gardam
When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around. View quote
Joe Perry
The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom. View quote
Jonathan Zittrain
The Internet's distinct configuration may have facilitated anonymous threats, copyright infringement, and cyberattacks, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom in ways that the framers of the American constitution would appreciate - the Federalist papers were famously authored pseudonymously. View quote
Jonathan Zittrain
Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning. View quote
Juliet Marillier
I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off. View quote
Kellan Lutz
When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame. View quote
Lorraine Toussaint
Flame mails and offensive Internet activities are not classy. It doesn't fit with our culture here, where we respect the gender, race, opinions, ear-lobe apparel and choice of clothing of all employees. View quote
David Duffield
Shane: "Bro," he said, in an injured tone, "I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it." Michael: "Pics or it didn't happen." Shane: "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." - Black Dawn. (Rachel Caine)
The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet. View quote
Roy Yamaguchi
You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame. View quote
William Anders
I want to bring down civilization. It's really clear that civilization is killing the planet. I'm interested in living in a world that has more wild salmon every year than the year before. A world that has more migratory songbirds every year than the year before. A world that has less dioxins and flame retardants in mothers' breast milk. A world not being destroyed. A world where krill populations aren't collapsing. A world where there are not dead zones in the oceans. A world not being systematically dismantled. I want to live in a world that is not being killed. I will do whatever it takes to get there. View quote
Derrick Jensen
That servile path thou nobly dost decline Of tracing word by word, and line by line; A new and nobler way thou dost pursue To make translations, and translators too; They but preserve the ashes, thou the flame, True to his sense, but truer to his fame. View quote
John Denham