Top 855 Burned Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

On Thanksgiving Night, 1942, when I was fifteen years old, white racists burned our house to the ground.

There are few people who will make mistakes with fire after having once been burned.

'Gari' in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my 'I' is burned off.

For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

Burned and squashed to death in a silver vat of soup. There must be worst ways to go. But not many.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

A Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a car. He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe!

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

The grudge you hold on to is like a hot coal that you intend to throw at someone, only you're the one who gets burned.

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children.

Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.

Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Men who are addicted to the passions are like the torch-carrier running against the wind; his hands are sure to be burned.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

I came to teaching late - not until my forties - which is one reason why I'm not burned out.

He was like a shooting star you tried to catch with your hands. She would only get burned.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

I'm lucky. It's okay that success has come later to me, because I might have burned up if it had happened earlier.

I thank God I've never burned no bridges with nobody, and when it's time for me to call in my favors, they're coming.

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings!

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.

The one advantage of playing with fire...is that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.

If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.

You have to be a free speech absolutist if you want to be an 8chan admin because if you're anything else, you're gonna get burned at the stake.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.

Since my house burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.

If she’d been born at the right time they would have burned her over in Salem.

The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute; if you burned them all together you'd get close to the truth.

History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Happy is love or friendship when returned-- The lovers whose pure flames have equal burned.

All I can say is sometimes home gets burned into your occipital lobe, and it can't leave you, and there's always that longing.

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No - no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad - distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention - and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.