Source: The Winter's Tale
“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: The Delmore Schwartz poem "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calmly-we-walk-through-this-april-s-day/ from Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959). The line was quoted in Star Trek: Generations; Schwartz was given credit in the film.
June Carter Cash (1929–2003) American singer, songwriter and actress
Ring of Fire (1963); co-written with Merle Kilgore · June Carter Cash performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyNf6sw8xaE · Anita Carter version (1963) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWGsaorj6U · Johnny Cash performance (1987) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEOdXU_JQPA · Johnny Cash performance (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zNQA5Xi4Q · Live performance by June (1999) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpRa6JbywTc
“No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian
“Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) American poet
"Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" ( full text online http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calmly-we-walk-through-this-april-s-day/); this poem has also been printed under the title "For Rhoda" <br class="br">Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959) <br class="br">Context: Each minute bursts in the burning room,<br>The great globe reels in the solar fire,<br>Spinning the trivial and unique away.<br>(How all things flash! How all things flare!)<br>What am I now that I was then?<br>May memory restore again and again<br>The smallest color of the smallest day:<br>Time is the school in which we learn,<br>Time is the fire in which we burn.
“When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer
“The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.”
Harold Innis (1894–1952) Canadian professor of political economy
Industrialism and Cultural Values p. 139.
The Bias of Communication (1951)
“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Table-Talk (1857)
“The fires of history burn hot and long, but memories of fires do not burn long enough.”
Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer
Source: Kilroy Was Here (1996), p. 148
Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet
Ela viu as palavras magoadas,
Que puderam tornar o fogo frio,
E dar descanso as almas condenadas.
tr. David Wevill
Lyric poetry, Não pode tirar-me as esperanças, Aquela triste e leda madrugada
