Quotes and Sayings About Burning
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A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
-- Adolf Bastian -
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.
-- Alana Beard -
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
-- Albert Camus -
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
-- Alex Haley -
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
-- Alexander Theroux -
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His speech is a burning fire.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : Algernon Charles Swinburne, H. M. Burton (2014). “Selections from Swinburne”, p.77, Cambridge University Press
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Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
-- Ally Carter -
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.
-- Amadou Hampate Ba -
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
-- Amanda Palmer -
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Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.
-- Amy Bloom -
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
-- Anais Nin -
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
-- Andre Breton -
My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
-- Andrea Gibson -
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He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
-- Angie Sage -
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
-- Anne Carson -
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
-- Ansel Adams -
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
-- Antonin Artaud -
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When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.
-- Arianna Huffington -
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
-- Arun Manilal Gandhi -
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Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
-- Augustine Birrell -
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
-- Ba Jin -
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
-- Barney Ross -
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
-- Ben Stiller -
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If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
-- Bernie Siegel -
I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
-- Bill Bailey