You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.
Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice.
If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you'd be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.
I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.
Some of the best conversations I've had are sitting around a camp fire.
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.