Hearth Quotes

99 Hearth quotes by 78 unique authors

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
I’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
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of… — Vincent Van Gogh
The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth. — Germaine Greer
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. — Joan Crawford
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. — Henry David Thoreau
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that… — Mark Twain
Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady… — Bess Streeter Aldrich
The heart is the inner face of your life. The human journey strives to make this inner face beautiful. It is here that love gathers… — John O'Donohue
A soul trembling to sit by a hearth so bright, To exist again, it’s enough if I borrow from Your lips the breath of my… — Stephane Mallarme
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before. — Thomas Kinkade

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