Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or station:
“You can much sooner dry you by such a fire as you can make in the woods than in anybodys kitchen, the fireplace is so much larger, and wood so much more abundant.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)