Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.

Thank God for the joys of family life. I have often said there can be no genuine happiness separate and apart from a good home. The sweetest influences and associations of life are there

If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through the windows, the curtains drawn aside,we see the family about the pleasant hearth; the old lady knitting; the cat playing with the yarn;the children wishing they had as many dolls or dollars or knivesor somethings, as there are sparks going out to join the roaring blast;the father reading and smoking, and the clouds rising like incense from the altar of domestic joy.I never passed such a house without feeling thatI had received a benediction.

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

The center of all my enjoyments is the home wherein are my wife and children, and I have no wish to wander out from that home in pursuit of any pleasures that the world presents.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

Our families and our homes are the center of American life, Everything we do is to make those homes-and the lives in them-more beautiful, more comfortable, more functional and more full of life and light and joy for those we love.

I’d rather be at home making love to my wife while my children are asleep.

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

Here's kind of my motto - if you're not happy at home, you're not happy anywhere else.

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

Just like other ordinary people, I want to have a happy family.

Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

I am happiest when I'm sitting on my parent's couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

My family life is a deep source of satisfaction.

I am actually really boring and I lead a quiet life. I love being at home, cooking for my boys, watching movies and I like nothing better than to go to bed early with a book.

I like to stay home with my family.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

I know this sounds generic, but I'm so happy to be home with my husband, my family, and my dog.

I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm not a gaping hole of need.