Quotes About Hearth

Snow was falling, and winter had come; the season of fire. Candles and hearth fire, that lovely, leaping paradox, that destruction contained but never tamed, held at a safe distance to warm and enchant, but always, still, with that small sense of danger.

The disintegration of rational society started in the drift from the hearth and the family," says Chesterton. "The solution must be a drift back.

Until 1600, the typical European home had a single room, and families would crowd around the fire most of the year to keep warm. The

For answer, Calcifer stretched out a blue arm-shaped flame divided into green fingerlike flames at the end. It was not very long, nor did it look strong. "See? I can almost reach the hearth," he said proudly.

They never listened. The truth is, men make terrible pigs. In my chair by the hearth, I lifted my cup. "Sometimes," I told him, "you must be content with ignorance.

They spend most evenings at home gathered around the family hearth listening to Louis either singing, reading from Dom Guéranger's The Liturgical Year, or reciting "...from memory long passages [of poetry] principally from Lamartine and Victor Hugo.

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

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.

grudge worsening. He knew who he hunted: wine-drunk, mead-met men, and he pined for his prey. Under storm clouds he stalked them, in his usual anguish, feeling a forbidden hearth, that gilded hall atop the hill, gleaming still, through years of bloodshed.

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

The course of history has often been turned by sentiment, but by thought never. The thinkers are but valuable ornaments. A safe place is assigned to them on the world's mantelpiece, while humanity basks and blinks stupidly on the hearth.

Critics would tar feminism and spiritualism with the same brush, branding both movements as absurd flights of fancy an worse, contributors to the erosion of home and hearth.

The girl looked at the only home she had known, the furniture she had built with her own hands, the beautiful bowl by the hearth as new as the day the smith made it, and at her mother, who sat as though made of stone facing the cooling hearth with her back to the entrance and to the girl.

His clothes smelt of the crisp green-apple smoke of burning birch from the hearth of Wen, the young widow with the freckles, who shaved the priests and those of the king's men who liked smooth chins.

The scop's chant moved majestically from folk and fold to hearth and hall, wealth and wire, his rolling Anglics now transmuted into the language of flame, and gold and honour.

There was a faggot of pine wood lying by the hearth, waiting to be cut up small.

And I will constrain Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamentation; she will be like an altar hearth before Me.

The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and four horns shall project upward from the hearth.