Fire Destroyed

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or destroyed:

    “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.)

    “In the past, the English tried to impose a system wherever they went. They destroyed the nation’s culture and one of the by- products of their systemisation was that they destroyed their own folk culture.”
    —Martin Carthy (b. 1941)