Burning House

Famous quotes containing the words burning and/or house:

“Being innocent, he dreaded that he died
Hating his God, but what he was was plain:
An old kind man brave in his burning pride.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life ... for fear that I should get some of his good done to me,—some of its virus mingled with my blood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)