Quotes About Hospitality

If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

I used to create meals for my friends. Eventually one of them suggested opening a restaurant. So I did.

I'm not suggesting I met a significant enough number of them to constitute a robust sample size, but I am saying that my general impression of Sri Lankans is that they are friendly, chatty and hospitable people.

Club Med is very suitable for a Chinese lifestyle.

I like doing accents. One of my friends works in hotel reservations and I'll ring her up and complain about the suite. Sometimes I get her.

You can have parties without spending enormous sums of money.

Shake Shack started off as a summer hot dog cart in Madison Square Park. It was not meant to be a company - it was completely accidental. It started off as an expression of community building.

Sunday lunch is always pretty social.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Let's be honest, we all love a roast, but Sunday lunch could be a huge plate of salade nicoise; it could be eggs benedict; it could be a barbecue. The important thing is you're making an effort, and you're all together.

I know people like myself where we've got resorts, or we're in the hospitality business, and we just can't make money because you're paying someone minimum $42 per hour or something on a Sunday.

I was raised by the Indian community, and those families are still very close to us. We used to go to each others' houses one Sunday a month, so we got to know everyone well. Also, we love Indian food and can't get enough of it.

I do a very good Sunday roast.

There is no lie-in for us on a Sunday. I generally invite my parents around for a roast dinner that they'll end up cooking for us.

There is a big dining table at In Sung hyung's house. That's our hangout spot, and we drink teas and chat.

Only those are in the right who keep an open door for both good and ill, so that each may come but also leave according to its needs. (Letters on Life)

Rast. Gast sein einmal. Nicht immer selbst seine Wünsche bewirten mit kärglicher Kost. Nicht immer feindlich nach allem fassen, einmal sich alles geschehen lassen und wissen: was geschieht, ist gut.

?stirahat. Bir kere de misafirli?i tad?yor.....Bir kere de her ?eyi kendi haline b?rakmak ve ?unu bilmek: Ne olursa iyi olur...

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

He says to use it "to gain friends for yourselves, so that when it is gone, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings" (Luke 16:9, NIV).

The Coles were very respectable in their way, but they ought to be taught that it was not for them to arrange the terms on which the superior families would visit them.

Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, "When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children." She exclaimed, "You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars]." But Rabbi Hiyya replied, "There is a wheel which revolves in this world." —Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b

A whole roasted lamb—stuffed with lamb sausages, organ and glandbreads, dried fruits and currants, tomato/garlic/onion mush, the entirety cardamomated, corianderized, cumined, cloved—was brought out on a spit, danced around. The carcassbearers were women, further gorgeous bursting Slavs