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“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”

Littles Used Fire Towns Safety Complexes Corners Used To Be Stations County Around The Corner Massachusetts Hampshire Little Towns Public Safety

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Now, having left cities behind me, turned Away forever from the strange, gregarious Huddling of men by stones, I find those various Great towns I knew fused into one, burned Together in the fire of my despising.”

Men Together Left Cities Behinds Forever Fire Strange Stones Towns Various Burned Gregarious

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.”

“The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.”

Firsts House Company Fire Towns South Friendly Mutual Carolina Insurance Companies South Carolina

Author:Andrew Tobias

“Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.”

World Would Be Religious Fire Rights Judging Towns Chiefs Womens Rights Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Religious Freedom

Author:Hillel Neuer

“Air and Water can just swirl around being swirly, and Fire is just kind of aggressive, but my gut feeling is that Earth needs to work for a living. Earth has stuff to be doing. Earth is busy. Earth is solid and responsible and works hard. Earth is reliable. Earth is the designated driver of the elements and will always come over and feed the cat when you're out of town.”

Needs Kind Hard Feelings Earth Stuff Water Fire Air Hard Work Elements Cat Towns Responsible Busy Guts Drivers Aggressive Gut Feelings Swirls Air And Water

Author:Ursula Vernon

“My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.”

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Author:Princess Superstar

“I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.”

Bigs Wanted Fantasy Growing Up Records Fire Growing Player Feet Return Mountain Picks Horse Towns Provision Daydreaming Cabins Childhood Dreams Log Cabins Record Players

Author:Linda McCartney

“The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.”

Self Names Rooms Quality Fire Building Towns Patterns Maintaining Entirety

Book:The Timeless Way of Building

Source: The Timeless Way of Building

“Darling Daddy, This is Rose. So flames went all up the kitchen wall. Saffron called the fire brigade and the police came too to see if it was a trick and the police woman said to Saffron Here You Are Again because of when I got lost having my glasses checked. But I was with Tom whose grandmother is a witch on top of the highest place in town. Love, Rose.”

Ifs Said Lost Fire Wall Highest Towns Police Rose Glasses Tricks Flames Kitchen Grandmother Witch Toms Daddy Darling Saffron

Author:Hilary McKay

“Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.”

Source: The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays

“Much of the fire with him [Ben Hogan] was lit by Byron Nelson, who came from the same town - the same caddie yard - and achieved fame and fortune several years ahead of Ben and who, as a kid, had always been popular and better liked than Ben. No puzzle at all.”

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Author:Dan Jenkins

“The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.”

Source: A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works