A Fire Drill Quotes

#1. We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could've been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#2. Oh, he's a sweet thing and I love him so--and I love life--and everything's beautiful!

Cornelia Spelman

#3. I'm not really the sacrificing type.

Franny Billingsley

#4. The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

Louis I. Kahn

#5. So we went on what we now call "The Beck Family Church Tour" and man did we see some churches.

Glenn Beck

#6. Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.

Shahla Khan

#7. This was the first one who watched me, listened, and got it. And walked out. Not because she wasn't interested. Not because she was playing a game. It was because she understood me. She was the only one.

Kate Morgenroth

#8. If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs.

Cassandra Clare

#9. I didn't have a drill, so I had to make my own. First I heated a long nail in the fire, then drove it through a half a maize cob, creating a handle. I placed the nail back on the coals until it became red hot, then used it to bore holes into both sets of plastic blades.

William Kamkwamba

#10. The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want.

Robert Anton Wilson

#11. Teachers always promise that students are in a "safe place," but most of us figure out that's a lie pretty fast. My very first fire drill was all the confirmation I needed that the worst can happen anywhere, anytime.

Brian K. Vaughan

#12. We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

Marc Singer

#13. The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. ... Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.

Jacques Monod

#14. The spelling of 'Wrenne' was a very common form of the family name, and it seems very likely that John Wrenne belonged to this family, who were much connected with S. George's, Windsor. OLD FAMILY MOTTO. William Wren was in Henry VIII.'s time the head of the family;

Lucy Phillimore

#15. Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

E.F. Benson

#16. ... now a Chinese Fire Drill is just mildly offensive slang denoting a chaotic and unproductive situation like most police calls handled by more than two cops. Those I really try to avoid. Hey, screw it. I'm no hero.

A.J. Hoover

#17. Damn it, Lettie. Marry me. For pity's sake, marry me and put me out of my misery.

Juliet Landon

#18. I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

Olly Murs

#19. God is in the truth.

Carol Tavris