Bob Riley Quotes

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

Fire is our first form of technology.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

No doubt, anarchy, once established, might not last forever. But if your house is on fire, the sensible course of action is to put out the fire, even though this extinguishment provides no guarantee that the house will never catch fire again.

When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

Divide the fire, and you will the sooner put it out.

In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

They have under invested in fire for so long that the catch up costs seem staggering. The traditional inclination is to rely on emergency interventions rather than systemic reforms.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.