York State Fire

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

    “New York state sentence for a Peeping Tom is six months in the workhouse. And they got no windows in the workhouse. You know, in the old days they used to put your eyes out with a red-hot poker.”
    —John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    “There is a small steam engine in his brain which not only sets the cerebral mass in motion, but keeps the owner in hot water.”
    —Unknown. New York Weekly Mirror (July 5, 1845)

    “I met a traveler from Arkansas
    Who boasted of his state as beautiful
    For diamonds and apples.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “You are no surer, no,
    Than is the coal of fire upon the ice,
    Or hailstone in the sun.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)