A Quote by Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles de Lint

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Burn Fires Intense Skin

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Charles de Lint
Canadian - Writer
Born: December 22, 1951

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Rory Bremner

All fires burn out at last.

Sigrid Undset

Many fires burn below the surface.

Empedocles

Out of the fires of desperation burn hope and solidarity.

Sharan Burrow

By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which give to them an inconquerable vitality of spirit which breaks down all barriers as wheat bends before the wind.

Walter Russell

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

Clifford D. Simak

In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.

Michael Meade

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

George Sterling

Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.

Thomas Kinkade

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

Alexander Pushkin

Some models of self-control are able to achieve their serenity easily because the soul fires never burn brightly to begin with.

Joseph J. Ellis

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.

Jean Racine

You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.

Gerald Nicosia

We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.