Beach Fire Department

Famous quotes containing the words beach, fire and/or department:

    “From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
    Those burial clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
    Watching, silently weeps.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “And new Philosophy calls all in doubt,
    The element of fire is quite put out;
    The Sun is lost, and th’earth, and no mans wit
    Can well direct him where to look for it.”
    —John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)