Lighting A Fire Quotes:

Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.

- Bob Teague

topic: Fire, Fire Within, Lighting A Fire

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Fire, Filling, Lighting A Fire

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

- Plutarch

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Education, Inspirational Learning

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

Whoever kindles the flames of intolerance in America is lighting a fire underneath his own home.

- Harold Stassen

topic: Home, America, Fire, Lighting A Fire, Character Education

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

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Teaching, Fire, Justice, Lighting A Fire, Filling Up

Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Christmas, Dream, Lying, Meaningful Christmas, Merry Christmas Inspirational

I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.

- Madonna Ciccone

source: Source: www.independent.ie

topic: Girl, Boys, Fire, Lighting A Fire, Unanswered

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

- Bobby Flay

topic: Fire, Flames, Grilling, Lighting A Fire, Charcoal