Hearth Quotes

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

We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, wi. - Abraham Lincoln

We came to the house, and it is an old house, full of great chimneys where wood is burnt on ancient dogs upon the hearth, and grim portraits (some of them with grim legends, too) lower distrustfully from the oaken panels of the walls. - Charles Dickens

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

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

The rapt one, of the godlike forehead,/ The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth:/ And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle,/ Has vanished from his lonely hearth. - William Wordsworth

The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone throughout the land. - Abraham Lincoln

The husband is delighted seeing his sons, and his wife upon his bed. He applies sandalwood and scented oils, and dresses himself in his beautiful clothes. But dust shall mix with dust, and he shall depart, leaving hearth and home behind. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib

The herdsman comes to the pasture lands - what good are his ostentatious displays here? When your allotted time is up, you must go. Take care of your real hearth and home. - Sri Guru Granth Sahib