Quotes About Gathering

The grave is the general meeting place.

The inscriptions and the paintings in the catacombs showed the early Christians gathering around their bishop, priests, and deacons to celebrate Mass and the sacraments.

No family ever put an airport under its Christmas tree.

Suddenly, he wanted all of them, wanted to gather them up—David and Delores, Juanita and Carine and Katherine, Uncle Connor and Brad—and place them in an orchestra that would play the music of his life. He wanted to leave out none of it—not the trombone, not the cello, not the cymbals or the violin. Synthesis. He needed a fusing together of all the strands of his life: past and present, black and white, poor and rich.

EVERYONE AT YAMPA VALLEY

Beyond these shores, whenever two or more Irishmen are gathered together, everything almost can be done.

North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do.

other party guests paraded just in front of us one by one in their chic outfits, but the thick leaves of a potted cyclamen shielded us from view.

would very much like to see you. We await your company at supper on May 19.

If even under growing persecution the author of Hebrews insisted that Christians "not give up meeting together" (v. 25a), how much greater disgrace it is when believers in less dangerous settings think they can go it alone in the Christian life or treat regular gatherings with fellow believers casually as an option only if nothing else intrudes on their schedules. 76

Ideas are often generated in physical gathering places where people with diverse interests encounter one another serendipitously. That is why Steve Jobs liked his buildings to have a central atrium and why the young Benjamin Franklin founded a club where the most interesting people of Philadelphia would gather every Friday.

auditorium and ambled down the aisle. Amelio had told the gathering that Jobs

practice living without limits by gathering virtue and modeling it.

shaped people's behavior by inviting them to come together and to linger.

Sociologists point out that the suburbs have done an efficient job of sorting people into communities where they will be surrounded by people of the same socioeconomic status. Meanwhile, the architectures of sprawl inhibit political activity that requires face-to-face interaction. It is not that sprawl makes political activity impossible, but by privatizing gathering space and dispersing human activity, sprawl makes political gatherings less likely.

Christmas: the one time of year when you can't avoid the nuts in your family muesli.

A meal without wine is like a day without sunshine.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

One cannot have too large a party.

A gathering of covidiots is known as a covfefe.

even the knives and forks had a social clatter as they went on to the table; and the chicken and ham had a cheerful and joyous fizzle in the pan, as if they rather enjoyed being cooked than otherwise

the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street, one of the city's big ethnic festivals.

In plaats van naar de kerk te gaan (hun denken was niet verduisterd door de gedachte dat de kerk bestond uit gebouwen en organisatorische structuren) kwamen ze bijen als zijnde de kerk om gemeenschap te hebben in Zijn Tegenwoordigheid