Fireplaces Quotes

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

Winter is 100% my favourite time of year. I'm not a summer baby.

My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big, wooden carved bath, two huge fireplaces and a raised bit in the corner for performances. I've had some really lovely parties and poetry readings up there.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

I always wanted to grow up in a house full of books, English books, and I wanted the sort of fireplaces that worked, overstuffed chairs, that whole kind of fantasy of a bookish New England life. So the library gave me that; for the hours that I was there, I was surrounded by that atmosphere that I craved in my life.

My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.

I loved having bonfires in the winter with my friends in the backyard.

I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes that never came back.