Hearth Quotes

99 quotes by 78 authors

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
It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house. — Donald Antrim
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. — Charles Lamb
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines, plantations, cottage hearth-stones,… — Christina Stead
Beware The Court of Owls, that watches all the time, ruling Gotham from a shadowed perch, behind granite and lime. They watch you at your… — Scott Snyder
Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and… — Henry David Thoreau
Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle. — Roland Barthes
Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an… — James Payn
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe. — Masanobu Fukuoka
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture. — Stephen Gardiner
Iâ€™m the least fanciful guy around, but on nights when I wonder whether there was any point to my day, I think about this: the… — Tana French
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire. — John Updike
A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the… — Sam Keen
You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really, that's what scientists… — Dave Barry
Shall not this bygone Eden that we knew In our Eternal Life have shape and hue? For where Time is not shall not all Time… — Alphonse de Lamartine

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