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Quotes About Gathering

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
~ Flann O'Brien
Let's to the Kit-Cat Clubb.
~ Neal Stephenson
Or a Moonie festival or something.
~ Neal Stephenson
There was silence around the big table in the Banana.
~ Neal Stephenson
I belong to a Bohri Muslim family, and for us, food is our biggest celebration. We are used to elaborate five- to six-course meals.
~ Nushrat Bharucha
As a family we love to come together, so I never want it to feel stuffy where someone feels like they can't kick their feet up. That's the Nashville gal in me.
~ Tish Cyrus
When he walked into Cookie's, everyone shouted, Happy New Year, and he found a bit of a smile had been hiding somewhere way back in his heart.
~ Christopher Moore
The fourth category of invention consists of new methods of production, operation, and management, ranging from marginal but economically rewarding improvements to fundamentally new and highly automated ways of mass-scale manufacturing, information gathering, and data processing.
~ Vaclav Smil
And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at last.
~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
And the space where his legend was gathering up words grew larger. Because this story was not over yet.
~ Laini Taylor
All the bogeymen together, sitting down to tea.
~ Laini Taylor
It took us two days to gather them! On foot! I will never hear the last of it! You call that no harm? Whatever punishment I choose, my woman deserves it, and more. Name me one woman you know who has run away from her husband. Just one, pia , and I will cool my anger.
~ Catherine Anderson
Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Marya watched from the upper floor as once again the birds gathered in the great oak tree, sniping and snapping for the last autumn nuts, stolen from squirrels and hidden in bark-cracks, which every winged creature knows are the most bitter of all nuts, like old sorrows sitting heavy on the tongue.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
having people over at all house very day of the week.
~ Cathy Yardley
It's really encouraging and inspiring to be around a gathering of so many people ... who really are committed to that vision." (While addressing the American Socialist Party, 2011)
~ Glenn Greenwald
Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
~ Gloria Steinem
but I grew to love these spontaneous gatherings in shopping malls, university bookstores, and specialty bookshops that couldn't be replaced by the big chains, all the spaces with coffee, comfortable chairs, and the presence of books that allow people to browse and discover interests they didn't know they had.
~ Gloria Steinem
And thank you for a house full of people I love. Amen.
~ Terri Guillemets
The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association
~ Jack London
Every year, at 8:00 PM on the second Saturday of July, hundreds of people gather along a section of Los Angeles rail track to drop their pants and moon passing passenger trains.
~ James Frey
I spent every summer as a child at my uncle's farm in Illinois so I know all about gathering eggs and how the hens will peck at you.
~ Ken Berry
I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them.
~ Tony Bennett
Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.
~ Bryan Clay