World Fire Brigade

Famous quotes containing the words world, fire and/or brigade:

    Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
    Roland Barthes (1915–1980)

    Their beauty sets them aside
    from other men and from women
    unless a woman has that cold fire in her
    called poet....
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    [John] Brough’s majority is “glorious to behold.” It is worth a big victory in the field. It is decisive as to the disposition of the people to prosecute the war to the end. My regiment and brigade were both unanimous for Brough [the Union party candidate for governor of Ohio].
    Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)