17 Fireplace Quotes for You to Enjoy

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer. George Matthew Adams

Life Myself People Try My Life Say Out Shall Open Fireplace Like Cheer Make Go May Warm Themselves

It's amazing how the biggest things in our lives - when we're around the fireplace and talking about them when we're older - the things that matter the most to us start off amazingly small and in a humble way. Frankie Ballard

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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. Al Smith

Christmas Before Local Hung Fireplace Over Empty Up Stocking Shoot Official Going Just Sane Santa Hard Santa Claus Who Municipal

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. Alan Hovhaness

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There's a room in my house where my stereo, records, CDs, and books are housed. I spend a lot of time in that room, sitting in my chair beside the fireplace, reading and listening to music. Sometimes I just stand before the shelves and look at my books, because every single one of them means something to me. George Pelecanos

Music Time Me Sometimes Listening Single Reading Before Every Spend Books Beside Something Records Fireplace Stereo Look House Because Shelves Lot Sitting Just Where Room Them Means Stand Chair

My living room has an oak-wood floor, Persian carpets, floor-to-ceiling bookcases, a large ficus and large fern, a fireplace with a group of photographs and drawings over it, a glass-top coffee table with a bowl of dried pomegranates on it, and sofas and chairs covered in off-white linen. Janet Malcolm

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If my favorite, most comfortable place is by our fireplace in cold weather, expedient places are on an airplane, in a waiting room or even waiting in line; frequently these days, while on the phone having been 'put on hold.' Joyce Carol Oates

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By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong. Marcia Clark

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. Marilyn Monroe

Live Everybody Exactly See Fireplace Like Looks Where Want Sofa

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy. Michael Dirda

Truth Great Walls Space Three Country Enough Those Libraries Worthy Some Above Crossed Only Splendor Fireplace Perhaps House Yearn Lined English Display Pair Swords Portrait Fundamentally Interrupted

When Harvey Weinstein threatened to sue me, it was like the scene in 'Harry Potter' where an invitation to Hogwarts is coming in through every window and fireplace and every opening in the house. Ronan Farrow

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I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it. Stephen J. Cannell

I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books. Virginia Euwer Wolff

Books Out Log Inside Rural Piano Fireplace Had House Massive Left Up Stone Grew Grand Oregon Bark Electricity Tons

The last time I ordered soup in a restaurant was - well, let me see - possibly never. That's because in my mind, soup is something to be made and eaten at home, ideally with a cuddly animal at your feet in front of a blazing fireplace while the wind whips outside. Claire Saffitz

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Once my sister was older, she and I would do lots of hobbies together. We took dance lessons and put on shows at home; tap dancing on the granite fireplace, which must have mortified my dad. Katie Piper

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