Cross Fire Department

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

    She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.
    Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    I thought I alone suffered,
    but suffering is everywhere.
    When I went on the housetop
    I saw its fire in every home.
    Farid (13th cent.)

    All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History.” Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the World’s University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)