Jackie Stewart Quotes

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.

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

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

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

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

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.

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.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

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'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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.

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

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.

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

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

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

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