Fireworks Quotes - Page 2

• Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Drinking, Humor

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• Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Flower, Dark, Garden

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• Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us.

  John Green

  Sex, Eye, Reflection

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.63, Penguin

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• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Graduation, Education

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• You're much better than fireworks. They're all over in a moment, and you're going to stay for a fortnight. Besides, fireworks are noisy, and they make too much smoke.

  Kate Ross

  Too Much, Moments, Fortnight

  Kate Ross (2012). “Cut to the Quick: Julian Kestrel #1”, p.19, Felony & Mayhem Press

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• You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Redneck

  "You might be a redneck if". Book by Jeff Foxworthy, 1989.

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• There was a young man of Herne Bay
  who was making some fireworks one day:
  but he dropped his cigar
  in the gunpowder jar.
  There was a young man of Herne Bay.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Men, Smoking

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• I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

  Carmen Electra

  Illegal

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• I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

  Neil Armstrong

  Pieces, One Piece, Daily Work

  "Neil Armstrong - First Television Interview (Part-2)". "60 minutes", www.youtube.com. 2005.

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• Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dream, Drama, Party

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Past, Worry

  Ray Bradbury (1973). “Mars and the mind of man”

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• Sparklers are the gay cousins of the fireworks family.

  Dave Attell

  Cousin, Gay

  Studio album: "Skanks for the Memories", February 4, 2003.

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• I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Inspirational, Freedom, 4th Of July

  "Le sang des autres (The Blood of Others)". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1945.

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• ...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

  David Mitchell

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.470, Random House

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• When someone that you love dies..it's like fireworks suddenly burning out in the sky and everything going black.

  Muriel Barbery

  Sky, Black, Burning

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• She followed the pleasure where it led. She had no weight, no name, no thoughts, no history. Then came a burst of phosphorescence, as though a firework had discharged behind her eyes, and it was over. She felt quiet and warm. For the first conscious moment of her life, her mind was free from wonder, free from worry, free from work or puzzlement. Then, from the middle of that marvelous furred stillness, a thought took shape, took hold, took over. I shall have to do this again.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Eye, Names, Worry

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2013). “The Signature of All Things”, p.93, A&C Black

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• We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.

  Meg Cabot

  Way, Display

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Teen Idol”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• So if big enough droplets fell far enough fast enough, someone floating right near the metallic hydrogen layer inside Jupiter maybe, just maybe, could have looked up into its cream and orange sky and seen the most spectacular show ever--fireworks lighting up the Jovian night with a trillion streaks of brilliant crimson, what scientists call neon rain.

  Sam Kean

  Rain, Night, Orange

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• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• Not all magic is fireworks and fanfare. Sometimes magic is quiet and sneaks up on you.

  Jeff Guinn

  Magic, Quiet, Sometimes

  Jeff Guinn (2006). “The Autobiography of Santa Claus”, p.43, Penguin

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• The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

  Jodi Picoult

  Rip, Rain, Fall

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, World, Whole

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2003). “No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life”, p.88, Penguin

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• What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?

  Ray Bradbury

  Soul, Church, Pure

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “The Illustrated Man”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.

  Frederick Reines

  Country, Memories, 4th Of July

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