Burning Quotes - page 2

If we set the precedent of limiting the First Amendment, in order to protect the sensibilities of those who are offended by flag burning, what will we say the next time someone is offended by some other minority view, or by some other person's exercise of the freedom the Constitution is supposed to protect? (Ted Kennedy)
As in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow, Surprised I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear. View quote
Robert Southwell
There it is, ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning. View quote
Howard Cosell
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. View quote
James Frazer
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. View quote
Lou Holtz
A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building. View quote
Paulo Freire
There is no country...where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that. View quote
Stanley Baldwin
Now no joy but lacks salt, That is not dashed with pain And weariness and fault; I crave the stain Of tears, the aftermark Of almost too much love, The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove. View quote
Robert Frost
I do not advocate burning your ship to get rid of the cockroaches. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
"Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. View quote
William S. Burroughs
God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowelless being of the Testaments - the vehement glorymonger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants. View quote
Nick Cave
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony. View quote
Danny Elfman
We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it. View quote
Billy Joel
I can smell burning flesh ... and I hope to God it's human. View quote
Morrissey
I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby. View quote
Christian Slater
The only church that illuminates is a burning church. View quote
Buenaventura Durruti
My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer. View quote
Lucille Ball
There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. View quote
Cole Porter
When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling. (Arianna Huffington)
Only the Muslims defend their beliefs by burning down churches, killing people and destroying embassies. This path will not yield any results. The Muslims must ask themselves what they can do for humankind, before they demand that humankind respect them. View quote
Wafa Sultan
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries-that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers. View quote
Robert Charles Wilson
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. View quote
W. Clement Stone
Funny thing about those Middle Ages,” said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all this neat technology and pass all these humanitarian laws, and then something happens: there's an economic crisis, or science makes some discovery people can't deal with. And boom, people go right back to burning Jews and selling pieces of the true Cross. Don't you ever make the mistake of thinking that mortals want to live in a golden age. They hate thinking. View quote
Kage Baker