Top 7 Burning Down Quotes

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Library, Burning Down, Persons

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

Fire, Priorities, Burning Down

Given the choice of apathy or someone liberating mink, burning down a research torture-laboratory, or killing a vivisectionist or other DIRECT murderer of animals, I will choose the aforesaid actions over apathy any day of the week.-

Gary Yourofsky

Animal, Choices, Burning Down

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

Mary Oliver

Heart, Knowing, Burning Down

Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

Alonzo Bodden

Burning Down, Fantasy, Claims

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Chuck Palahniuk

House, Tudors, Burning Down

"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September, 1999.