Fire Quotes

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

I mean, you have a general tone of it but it's pretty much you get to come in and you're going to flip this car and it's going to blow up and you're going to come out on fire and you go oh, that's cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

And for the first time in a long time, I'm playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.

I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.