Book quotes Quote by Buffy Andrews

“Steel is forged by fire...”

— Larry Chapman

“Among the mighty store of wonderful chains that are for ever forging, day and night, in the cast iron-works of time and circumstance, there…

— Charles Dickens

“Some people were like pottery. They had been tested in a fire just hot enough to make them capable, but perhaps not durable.”

— Heather Burch

“Your castles and strongholds shall have bars of iron and bronze, and as your day, so shall your strength, your rest and security, be.”

— Anonymous

“The finest steel must go through the hottest fire.”

— Richard Milhous Nixon

“From bells to cannons and back again, from now until the end of time. Such is the fate of iron ore.”

— Amor Towles

“I have become a gate To the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.”

— Howard Nemerov

“The finest steel gets put through the hottest fire.”

— John N. Mitchell

“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds are scrawled…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In that smooth fortress of glass, I caught a glimpse of my corruption gripping steel, which before I had thought of as my salvation,…

— J.D. Stroube

“Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of the ages.”

— Victor Hugo

“It's temples and palaces did seem Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley