London Fire Brigade/staffing

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

    One of the many to whom, from straightened circumstances, a consequent inability to form the associations they would wish, and a disinclination to mix with the society they could obtain, London is as complete a solitude as the plains of Syria.
    Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    Your eyes were frosted starlight,
    Your heart fire and snow.
    Who was it said, “I love you”?
    Alice: Mother, let me go!
    Robert Graves (1895–1985)

    Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoitre the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)