Famous Quotes & Sayings

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, / That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Ian Lowe

Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the main causes of global warming.

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

A friend saw him on fire and came and put him out. That's the only thing that keep the fire from burning all of him.

Antonin Scalia

Certainly one cannot ban cross burning in the sanctity of his bedroom.

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

James A. Forbes

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

We are studying the weather hard every day. If this weather model continues, it may become prudent for us to reconsider whether to have a burning ban.

We know that it's a large warehouse with propane tanks and multiple pallets. We're talking about the pallets that you see in the warehouse stores that are three stories high of wooden pallets that are burning right now. There are also plumbing supplies, roofing supplies, and other multiple things inside this warehouse that are fully involved.

The death of millions of Jews, homosexuals, Roma, is in no way comparable to cartoons or the burning of flags. We cannot talk to you if you deal with this in this manner.

E. O. Wilson

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

You know you're doing it right when you feel burning in your hips and nothing in your groin. It gets my hips and my groin all on one page. I had groin trouble early in my career. I was using too much of my groin because my hips were tight.

Rick Riordan

We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully. “Noticed!” I yelled back.

Ruta Sepetys

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

Theodore Roosevelt

Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile.

Paulo Freire

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.

Mark Ruffalo

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel.

Several of these fires got away and were burning very close to homes and communities.

CD burning is a problem that is really undermining sales.

Burning cars is rather typically French. The last two weeks have been unusual, but it is more common than people realize.

Robert Kirkman

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.

From my viewpoint, I don't know if it's not a burning issue for the people, or they don't know it's going on. We'd like to have public input and know what they think, but they're just not coming.

I don't think we're doing our kids a service anymore. We're starting too young. We're burning them out. We're doing too much too early.

If it's not required to use the highest octane gas, don't do it. You're just burning money.

If we had six people all burning the same day, and three of them get out of control, I can't handle that. I catch a lot of flak for not issuing more burn permits, but I'd rather catch flak than be out there all the time.

If they would quit burning until it rains, it would help a lot.

I look for flags. I look for burning smoke. I look for trees wiggling in the wind,

Jerry Pournelle

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!