York State Fire

Famous quotes containing the words york, state and/or fire:

“New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world’s greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)