London Fire Brigade/staffing

Famous quotes containing the words london, fire and/or brigade:

    “The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “Where two raging fires meet together,
    They do consume the thing that feeds their fury.
    Though little fire grows great with little wind,
    Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “[John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)