Hearth Quotes

99 Hearth quotes by 78 unique authors

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
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
The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. — Washington Irving
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive. — Alexander Eliot
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
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
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
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. — John Milton
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor. — George Stillman Hillard
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
A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather. — Unknown Author
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
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth. — Arthur Rimbaud
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
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
To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world! — Charles Dickens
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
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
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
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and… — Michael Meade
Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over… — J.R.R. Tolkien
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. — William Wordsworth
It looked something like a pen wiper and something like a piece of hearth-rug. A second and keener inspection revealed it as a Pekinese puppy. — P.G. Wodehouse
Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit… — Noah Richler

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