Build A Fire Quotes:

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

- Terry Pratchett

topic: Funny, Life, Men, Humorists, Fire Escapes

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

- Mia Hamm

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer, Inspirational Soccer, Olympic Games

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

- Loretta Lynn

source: Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.7, Vintage

topic: Country, Mistake, Teaching, Singer-songwriters, Teaching Children

I have a sister, so I know-that relationship, it's all about fairness: you want your sibling to have exactly what you have-the same amount of toys, the same number of meatballs on your spaghetti, the same share of love. But being a mother is completely different. You want your child to have more than you ever did. You want to build a fire underneath her and watch her soar. It's bigger than words.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Sister, Mother, Children, Meatballs, Build A Fire

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

- Horace Traubel

topic: Fire, World, Cold, Cold Heart, Build A Fire

Well, there are three things that the average man thinks he can do better than anybody else. Build a fire, run a hotel and manage a baseball team.

- Rocky Bridges

topic: Running, Baseball, Team, Baseball Team, Build A Fire

After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire.

- Charles Krauthammer

topic: Fire, Office, Woods, Commuting, Freeways

I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Fun, Fire, Eight, Build A Fire, Whittling

We Americans think we are pretty good! We want to build a house, we cut down some trees. We want to build a fire, we dig a little coal. But when we run out of all these things, then we will find out just how good we really are.

- Will Rogers

topic: Running, Cutting, Thinking, Build A Fire

If it's January, I'm dead in three hours. But in June, I'd be hungry, but I'd make it out. I'd find my way without a map or compass. I say that with confidence. I can build a fire without a match.

- Rob Corddry

source: "20Q Rob Corddry". Interview with Eric ­Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. September 22, 2014.

topic: Fire, June, Three, Build A Fire

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

- Sarah Wayne Callies

source: "Q&A – Sarah Wayne Callies (Lori Grimes)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

topic: Love, Husband, Night, Backpacking, Rite Of Passage

The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.

- Dwight L. Moody

topic: Fire, Church, Way, Revive, Build A Fire