Gas House

Famous quotes containing the words gas and/or house:

    “Man moves in all modes, by legs of horses, by wings of winds, by steam, by gas of balloon, by electricity, and stands on tiptoe threatening to hunt the eagle in his own element.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I am cold in this cold house this house
    Whose washed echoes are tremulous down lost halls.
    I am a woman, and dusty, standing among new affairs.
    I am a woman who hurries through her prayers.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)