(4 quotes found)
“When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself”
Shunryu Suzuki
“What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an esplanade where stretcher cases lay side by side, end to end, waiting for a priest to come with a monstrance that gathered sun to its gold and blazed in the sign of the cross above the stretchers.”
Kathryn Hulme
“The bonfire of the vanities.”
Tom Wolfe
