Chimney Quotations

Sitting by the chimney corner as we grow old, the commonest things around us take on live meanings and hint at the difference between these driving times and the calm, slow moving days when we were young.

I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look.

May you have a bright future - as the chimney sweep said to his son.

Neither one of us had swept a chimney, but we became August West Registered Certified Chimney Sweeps. With the demand for wood appliances going through the roof, we maximize the performance of the system. Now we wish we could keep up with the demand. We're now scheduling out three weeks.

Our chimney was blown off and part of our roof was damaged, and we had some water damage. But there have been many more people shaken than we are, of course.

With a tale, for sooth, he comet unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.

There's an old chimney up there and I think the wind blew that off the old gym.

It was called in as a chimney fire with possible extension to the ceiling. It had extended to the ceiling when I got there. There was quite a bit of damage to roof and some water damage.

It's part of the lore of being a chimney sweep.

Nobles, citizens, farmers, mechanics, seamen, footmen, maid servants, even chimney sweeps and old clothes women dabbled in tulips.

They are like a chimney going to the attic. Each chase way can be equivalent to an open window.

Smoke is an issue. I don't recommend them for residential environment without raising the chimney. ... With the proper chimney height it shouldn't be an issue.

I guess all the weight of snow took out the chimney ... just knocked it over.

I heard a loud boom that shook the house. At first I thought it was the furnace. I asked my son 'Did you feel that?' It shook the couch. I thought maybe something fell upstairs, or maybe the chimney collapsed or something. I went outside to look around. You can see the town garage from the house; I thought maybe it was the back of the bucket banging. Nobody was at the town garage.

Chimney fires are very dangerous, and more times than not can make chimneys unusable,

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.