Chimney Top

Famous quotes containing the words chimney top, chimney and/or top:

    “Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops.”
    —E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981)

    “With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again—but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.”
    —Paule Marshall (b. 1929)