Famous quotes containing the words set and/or fire:
“This is God’s country—Why set it on fire and make it look like hell?”
—For the State of Maine, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“We could not well camp higher, for want of fuel; and the trees here seemed so evergreen and sappy, that we almost doubted if they would acknowledge the influence of fire; but fire prevailed at last, and blazed here, too, like a good citizen of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)