“If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?” IfsMenFirstsEarthHeavenFireHe ManOughtHonorWorthyWrathFirefighterFiremanPrometheusKindlingFirefightingFire Fighter Author:John Godfrey Saxe
“Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500 firefighters on the Wallow Fire and all of us in the firefighting community, our heartfelt condolences go out to their families and their co-workers. “If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor those who make it their professional business to put it out?” IfsFirstsTwoEarthHeavenCommunityFireOughtHonorBlueWorkersWorthyYesterdayDivisionFloridaBehalfWrathHeartfeltFirefighterRibbonsCondolencesCo WorkerPrometheusKindlingFirefighting Author:John Godfrey Saxe
“Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.” ThinkingMenWayFeelsLongValuesOrderRolesComfortablePatternsBoundariesNew WaysMarsConsistencyAnother ManPrometheusProteus Author:Luke Rhinehart
“Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.” Has BeensArtSelfFacesArtistEffortEnemyDoubtMankindHeroDespairAgonyPersistentSelf-doubtPrometheusUndaunted Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.” MenNeedsTreeNeededAll ThingsPrometheus Author:Cyrano de Bergerac
“In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.” MenGivingFirstsHumansSpiritJesusCausesChurchWhitePleasureFireTroublePaintingSonHairBirthHeroHolyCreaturesMalesHoly SpiritOld ManLegendsAdamNurseBeardOld WomanGiving BirthIcarusPrometheusWhite Hair Author:Oriana Fallaci
“Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.” HumansFilmAnswersFictionRaisesScience FictionHuman LifeMagnificentIntriguingPrometheusRaises Questions Author:Roger Ebert
“I've never had to explain Prometheus to people, ever. Most people get it.” PeoplePrometheus Author:Idris Elba
“...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.” ShouldArtUsedOrderFreedomLibertyFireArt IsStealingSubversivePrometheus Author:Pablo Picasso
“Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.” StarsImaginationMoonWesternMetaphorFlightExplorationRescueApolloSpace ExplorationLandingStar GazingBreathtakingIncapacityIcarusPrometheus Author:George Steiner
“Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.” HumansHomeThreeSunHellFireFourCreaturesElementsAncientStealingVersionsSmokePerformingIntimateSmokingRitualCaptureSparksLightningCigaretteTobaccoBack HomeEmbodimentVolcanoesSmokersMarrowSmoking CigarettesStill Life With WoodpeckerPrometheusFour Elements Author:Tom Robbins
“There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.” NeedsStoriesFireScientistStealingPrometheus Author:Brian Andreas