Famous quotes containing the words fire, giant and/or king:
“Tis the Last Judgments fire must cure this place,”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.”
—Oswald Spengler (18801936)
“And this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,
That whatsoever king shall reign,
Ill be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.”
—Unknown. The Vicar of Bray (l. 912)