Chimneys Quote by Angie Sage

You can't build a chimney from the top, you know.

— Marian Anderson

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house…

— Henry David Thoreau

It's understandable that people are keeping one eye on the pot and another up the chimney.

— Kevin Keegan

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks”

— Jerzy Kosiński

We climb up the chimney. We ain't ducking no smoke.

— Ja Morant

Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops.

— Anonymous

“I am a chimney which has been smoked. Out of breath and out of warmth. My air carries murky whispers and inky phantoms. Loneliness…

— Iqra Iqbal

“and the wood smoke will roll out of the fireplace on to the carpet we paid too much for on that rainy afternoon in…

— John le Carré

You cannot make the fire so low but it will get out.

— George Herbert

The edge of any roof or any portion of a room coming up under something like a chimney should have a proper ice-and-water shield…

— Bryan Baeumler

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we turn about…

— William Butler Yeats