Some men might buy their wives stoves for their birthdays…

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

— Indro Montanelli

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

— Irving Layton

Approaching the stove, she would don a voluminous apron, toss some meat on a platter, empty a skillet of its perfectly cooked a point…

— Bert Greene

A child can be taught not to do certain things, such as touch a hot stove, pull lamps off of tables, and wake Mommy…

— Joan Rivers

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Every time I go near the stove, the dog howls.

— Phyllis Diller

It's funny how certain objects convey a message - my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass…

— David Sedaris

Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It…

— Rachel Corrie

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees…

— Ernest Poole

Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we…

— Michael Moore

I know that you like to see a man in the kitchen, but I'm skeptical of men who cook. A man should be focusing…

— Gene Simmons

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot

— Roy Orbison

Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron…

— Lewis Mumford

Every morning the cuisinier must start again at zero, with nothing on the stove. That is what real cuisine is all about.

— Fernand Point

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang…

— Charles Bukowski