Benjamin Franklin Quotes

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

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

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

A fire should be extinguished when it is small; an enemy should be subdued while young.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

What we need as much as money is consensus about how we live [with fire] in that countryside [prone to forest fires] or at least agreement about how to decide…. More than 72,000 communities are at risk and only 20% have a plan for protection.

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

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

The advantage of knowing about risks is that we can change our behavior to avoid them. Of course, it is easily observed that to avoid all risks would be impossible; it might entail no flying, no driving, no walking, eating and drinking only healthy foods, and never being touched by sunshine. Even a bath could be dangerous.

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

I'm afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I'm afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that's why I don't turn on electrical appliances at night.

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

Rae burned me. She has matches or something. Look, look..." Tori pulled down the collar of her T-shirt. "Leave your cloths on, Tori," Simon said, raising his hands to his eyes. "Please.