Charles Kingsford Smith famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.

  • No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

  • Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

  • We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

  • You know a good board when you see one.

  • Collaboration is the best way to work. It's the only way to work, really. Everyone's there because they have a set of skills to offer across the board.

  • Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested.

  • The first of all considerations is that our meals shall be fun as well as fuel.

  • Society's dependence on fossil fuels is jeopardising social and economic progress.

  • We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.