Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the…

“Generalized Inventory   In this, you could include the basic items that are general to the RV and don’t particularly fit into a separate…

— Catherine Dale

I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious,…

— Jabari Asim

“We were very much a reading family, but we were a borrow-a-book-from-the-library family more than a bookshelves-full-of-books family. My parents valued books, but they…

— Susan Orlean

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