7 Hearth Quotes for You to Enjoy

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. Vincent Van Gogh

Soul Sit Way See Only No-One Blazing Smoke Passers-By Came Continue Hearth May Chimney Ever

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

Simple Farm Universe Our Small True Hearth Center

I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics. Damian Lewis

Politics Good Family People Mother Listening Sunday Big Thinking Say Plenty All-Around London Feet She Talking Around Go Were Lot Up Loud Very Hearth Big Thing Children Grew Loved Us Should Used Mum Her Thing Four Gather

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

War Sex Real Domestic Hearth Theater

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto. Sandra Tsing Loh

Love You Marriage Yourself Own Think Followed My Own Having Tend Onto Divorce Long-Term Tracks Gently Glowing Affair Up Train Than Hearth Blown Via Flaming Less Traumatic Set

As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth. William Jay Smith

Teacher Experience Joy Light Old Librarian See Parent Faces Poem Adult Tale New Knows Around Surely Audiences Surprise Up Campfire Than Hearth Any Listen Suspense Children Which Richer