Hearth Quotes
99 quotes by 82 authors
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If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to…
— Charles Dickens
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When men do not love their hearth, nor reverence their thresholds, it is a sign that they have dishonoured both ... Our God is a…
— John Ruskin
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The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.
— Washington Irving
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We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
— Alexander Eliot
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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given to you by…
— John O'Donohue
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Four specters haunt the Poor - Old Age, Accident, Sickness and Unemployment. We are going to exorcise them. We are going to drive hunger from…
— David Lloyd George
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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
— John Milton
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
— George Stillman Hillard
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Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:…
— William Wordsworth
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A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.
— Judith Merkle Riley
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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 frame…
— Lewis Mumford
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The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
— Arthur Rimbaud
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The light of the Christmas star to you. The warmth of home and hearth to you. The cheer and goodwill of friends to you. The…
— Sherryl Woods
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My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it…
— Aldo Leopold
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To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!
— Charles Dickens
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There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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A gypsy fire is on the hearth, Sign of the carnival of mirth; Through the dun fields and from the glade Flash merry folk in…
— Jerry Smith
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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get…
— C S Forester
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Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who Wrote These Hearth Quotes
82 authors contributed a total of 99 Hearth Quotes, led by these top contributors: