Famous quotes containing the words firing and/or glass:
“Slowly, and in spite of anything we Americans do or do not do, it looks a little as if you and some other good people are going to have to answer the old question of whether you want to keep your country unshackled by taking even more definite steps to do soeven firing shotsor, on the other hand, submitting to be shackled for the sake of not losing one American life.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Like a wild stranger out of wizard-land
He dwelt a little with us, and withdrew;
Black and unblossomed were the ways he knew,
Dark was the glass through which his fire eye shined.”
—Edwin Arlington Robinson (18691935)