York State Fire

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

    “New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant—one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.”
    —Agnes Smedley (1890–1950)

    “The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.”
    —David Malet Armstrong (b. 1926)

    “All praise of the hawk on fire in hawk-eyed dusk be sung,
    When his viperish fuse hangs looped with flames under the brand
    Wing, and blest shall
    Young
    Green chickens of the bay and bushes cluck, “dilly dilly,
    Come let us die.””
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)