Hearthsides

At our hearthsides, we gain more than we dared desire, by mutual mercy; at our hearthsides, we bestow and receive a better love, by this power of soft and magnanimous oblivion. ❋ Various (N/A)

Germany, the land of the Christmas tree and folk songs, and hearthsides and gay childish laughter, turned into a relentless fighting machine! ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Oh, what do the folks who sit snug by their warm hearthsides, knitting their lives into comfortables to wrap around their real feelings and human impulses, ever know about their neighbors who come in to drink tea with them? ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)

There are times when he comes amongst us like one who might quite conceivably have been comrade to pelted warriors who fought with clubs and hammers, like one who might have beaten out a rude music by black, smoking hearthsides quite as readily as made tone-poems for the modern concert-room. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)

And surely Chapman was a fascination at hearthsides, with his gospel-tinged backwoods storytelling, even though Howard Means concludes: 'By our modern definitions, John Chapman almost certainly was insane.' ❋ Unknown (2011)

Welcome to what I hope you will experience as a four or five night midwinter-lull footie video festival, to warm your hearts and hearthsides as we trek together round the globe in search of the 2008 perfect goal … ❋ Unknown (2009)

River before they returned "-- so that it behooved the Fincastle men to look to their own hearthsides. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)