burn quotes

   Burn, baby, burn!

-Anonymous
  Radical cry in racial riots and fire-raising in Watts, California and Newark, New Jersey. Quoted in Time,11  Aug.

  Burn your bra!

-Anonymous
  US feminists'slogan.

It is better to marry than to burn.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians 7:9.

Burn, with Athens and with Rome, A sacred city of the mind.

- (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie Campbell
  'Toledo,  July1936'.

But then they danced down the street like dingle- dodies, and Ishambled afteras I've beendoing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'

-Jack (John) Kerouac
  On The Road, pt.1, ch.1.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Do Not Go Gentle IntoThat Good Night'.

Chafing in action when his nature yearned to act, conscious of indignitiesreal and imagined,Johnsonwent through three years of slow burn.

-Theodore H(arold) White
Of Lyndon B Johnson as John F Kennedy'sVice President. Quoted in Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr AThousand Days (1965).