Plato Quotes, Children Quotes, Fire Quotes

Someday, in the distant future, our grand-children' s grand-children will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Children Quotes , Fire Quotes

The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The skies stoop down in their desire; And, isled in sudden seas of light, My heart, pierced thro' with fierce delight, Bursts into blossom in his sight.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes , Heart Quotes , Fire Quotes

Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Fire Quotes , Shining Quotes

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Fire Quotes , Water Quotes

A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Fire Quotes , May Quotes

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Fire Quotes , Hot Quotes

we can harness the energy of the winds, the seas, the sun . But the day man learns to harness the energy of love, that will be as important as the discovery of fire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Men Quotes , Fire Quotes

I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Fire Quotes , Mouths Quotes

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Fire Quotes , Burning Quotes

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Eye Quotes , Fire Quotes

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Fire Quotes , United States Quotes

Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Horace Quotes , Fire Quotes , Gains Quotes

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aidan Quinn Quotes , Fire Quotes , Focus Quotes

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Real Quotes , Fire Quotes

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Teaching Quotes , Fire Quotes

You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And straight is cold again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Anger Quotes , Fire Quotes

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Life Quotes , Fire Quotes

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Fire Quotes , Would Be Quotes

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Sleep Quotes , Fire Quotes

From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Al Gore Quotes , Taken Quotes , Fire Quotes