Mao Zedong Quotes

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

You can't start a fire without a spark

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

a small spark can start a great fire

A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.

We can set the spark that lights the fire.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

Heed the spark or you may dread the fire.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

From a little spark may burst a flame.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.

When a fire starts in one it just races through. And that is in a way unconscionable.