The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.
Quotes about tinder (4 Quotes)
the Balkans are a tinder box ... World War I started there ... there's a great deal at stake -- the stability of Europe.
The thinking is that with the major U.S. renewals coming in July, we should keep our tinder dry in terms of writing catastrophe business and feed the company with group business to build it up.
The Feminine Mystique' was huge in terms of its national and international impact on society. It was like a spark on tinder and helped light the fire of the women's movement. It had solid academic foundations even though she wasn't an academic. It was the right book at the right time.