Top 131 Hearth Quotes & Sayings

Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.

The last cobwebs of fog in the black firtrees are flakes of white ash in the world's hearth.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

Soup is the song of the hearth... and the home.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity.

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.

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 name you murmur all night.

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood?

You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.' And why is that, Percy Jackson?' Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

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 hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

The domestic man, who loves no music so well as his kitchen clock, and the airs which the logs sing to him as they burn on the hearth, has solaces which others never dream of.

Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.

To have a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing in all the world!

The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections.

Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.

It is a sure sign of a mind not balanced as it ought to be, when it is insensible to the pleasures of the domestic hearth, and to the little joys and endearments of a family.

A cat improves the garden wall in sunshine, and the hearth in foul weather.

My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.

Oh, trebly blest the placid lot of those whose hearth foundations are in pure love laid, where husband's breast with tempered ardor glows, and wife, oft mother, is in heart a maid!

I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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 at her knee, the hearth.

Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

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 opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

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 smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture.

It is an injustice that an old, broken, half-dead father should enjoy alone, in a corner of his hearth, possessions that would suffice for the advancement and maintenance of many children.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

It's curious that throughout our history together, with no apparent effort, people have been able to think of the cat simultaneously as the guardian spirit of the hearth and home, and as the emblem of freedom, independence, and rootlessness.

Hope survives best at the hearth.

A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen hearth, fry up a dozen eggs in butter, and eat them all, then lay ye down on the hearth rug and roger ye 'till you - is that all right? he inquired, noticing my look. 'Til I what? I asked fascinated by his description of the evening's program. 'Til ye burst into flame and take me with ye, I suppose, he said, and stooping, swooped me up into his arms and carried me across the darkened threshold.

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey Widow-maker?

Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.

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 him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

The simple hearth of the small farm is the true center of our universe.

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 hope of a child-like heart to you. The joy of a thousand angels to you. The love of the Son and God's peace to you.

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 masquerade, For this is Hallowe'en!

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.

the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon.

It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house.

Beautiful eyes are those that show, Like crystal panes where hearth fires glow, Beautiful thoughts that burn below.