Wildfires Quotes

• When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Kindness, Helping Others, Generosity

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• Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

  John Holdren

  Moisture, Soil, Temperature

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• Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year, not a single one would get started without the fire triangle: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Fire needs all three to exist. It's like the three branches of our government: Legislative, judicial and executive. The fewer there are, the safer we are.

  Stephen Colbert

  Fire, Government, Oxygen

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• 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.

  Tom Watson

  Moving, Fighting, Fire

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• We need healthy forests if we want to protect our climate. As the climate changes, forests become more vulnerable to insect outbreaks, droughts and wildfires. Simultaneously, when our forests are destroyed, their carbon is released back into the atmosphere, further impacting climate change. It's a horrifying one-two punch.

  Chris Noth

  Two, Healthy, Atmosphere

  "My Plans This Valentine’s Day Weekend" by Chris Noth, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

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• We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.

  Janet Napolitano

  Community, Risk, Delay

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• Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona

  Rick Renzi

  Order, Fire, Waiting

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• But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

  Avi Arad

  Dvds, Office, Community

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from one end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.

  Eric Hoffer

  Country, Fashion, Song

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• The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Magic Moments, Ideas

  "Women at the Tipping Point...Is Corporate America Ready?" by Jeffery Tobias Halter, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2017.

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• This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Impact, Climate

  "U.S. Climate Has Already Changed, Study Finds, Citing Heat and Floods". Interview with Al Roker, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 2014.

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• There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Passion, Years, Would Be

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

  Robert Orben

  Years

  "The Jokers Take Heart - Pundits Ponder The Implications". The Washington Post, May 06, 1987.

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• When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Country, Texas, Rhode Island

  "It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. May 21, 2013.

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• The report falsely asserts that global warming is causing more extreme weather events, more droughts, more record high temperatures, more wildfires, warmer winters, etc., when each and every one of these false assertions is contradicted by objective, verifiable evidence.

  James Taylor

  Winter, Weather, Events

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• For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Believe, Science

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• One night, in his cups, he drank a jar of wildfire, after telling his friends it would transform him into a dragon, but the gods were kind and it transformed him into a corpse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Night, Dragons, Jars

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.790, Bantam

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• Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Desire, Rage, Type

  Eric Jerome Dickey (2008). “Pleasure”, p.172, Penguin

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• And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Climate, Hoaxes

  Second Democratic Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, delivered 6 September 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina

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• Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left the Forest Service under-funded and under-prepared for this crisis. I don't think it's a conspiracy, but it's a philosophy they have that leads to explosive fires that destroy everything.

  Marc Racicot

  Summer, Philosophy, Thinking

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• This is the one thing I hope: that she never stopped. I hope when her body couldn't run any farther she left it behind like everything else that tried to hold her down, she floored the pedal and she went like wildfire, streamed down night freeways with both hands off the wheel and her head back screaming to the sky like a lynx, white lines and green lights whipping away into the dark, her tires inches off the ground and freedom crashing up her spine.

  Tana French

  Running, Dark, Night

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• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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• So when he touched me, it was deeper and slower than the wildfire, like the flow of molten rock far beneath the surface of the earth. Too deep to feel the heat of it, but it moved inexorably, changing the very foundations of the world with its advance.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Rocks, Foundation, World

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.471, Hachette UK

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• In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Passion, Europe

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• President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.

  Randy Neugebauer

  Texas, People, Community

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