
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
Shangri-la
Teases and Dares (1984)
“I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.”
“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.”
"Araby"
Dubliners (1914)
“His fingers are directly wired to his soul.”
Brian May
About
“But the next time… IT WILL BE BY FIRE!”
Chick tracts, " There Go The Dinosaurs https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1038/1038_01.asp" (2007)
Context: Those dinosaurs that were in the ark were "fruitful and multiplied" like other animals. But now the dinosaurs had a big problem... THE AIR HAD CHANGED! Remember those trillions of destroyed plants? They made the air rich with oxygen. And big animals need lots of it to survive. In the thinner air it was harder to breathe - they got slower and easier to catch. Now you know how the dinosaurs really died. Because of sin, the Lord destroyed the earth by water. But the next time... IT WILL BE BY FIRE!
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The burnt child dreads the fire.”
Act I, scene 2
The Devil Is an Ass (performed 1616; published 1631)
Part II, chapter 2.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Song lyric of "Burn", written by Goulding, Greg Kurstin, Brent Kutzle, Ryan Tedder, and Noel Zancanella
Halcyon Days (2013)
“4436. The burnt Child dreads the Fire.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)