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

  Funny, Life, Intelligent

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

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Children, Mistake

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

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• 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

  Sister, Mother, Children

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “My Sister's Keeper”, p.477, Simon and Schuster

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

  Horace Traubel

  Fire, World, Cold

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• 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

  Motivational, Baseball, Running

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• 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

  Fire, Office, Woods

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• 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

  Fun, Fire, Eight

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• 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

  Running, Cutting, Thinking

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• 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

  Fire, June, Three

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

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• 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

  Love, Husband, Night

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

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

  Dwight L. Moody

  Fire, Church, Way

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