Quotes About Hospitality

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

I greet you as guests and so will not crush the life from you and devour your souls with peals of laughter. No, instead, I will make some tea.' Nimander

I greet you as guests and so will not crush the life from you and devour your souls with peals of laughter. No, instead I will make some tea.

Join us, friend," said Kruppe. "Sit here by this fire: this scene paints the history of our kind, as you well know. A night, a hearth, and a tale to spin…

I stayed in a really old hotel last night. They sent me a wakeup letter.

After all, there is little we can do when we're sitting at the same table and drinking tea with someone we hate. Judas himself could be sitting at our table, and we wouldn't ask him about Jesus. We would talk to him about the weather.

We rarely have guests, so when we do, we tend to smother them.

My hostess had an extensive family of brats, sticky-mouthed and staring, who were huddled around a delightfully huge fire.

I felt like they were loitering around in the hope one of us would sup from them later. Perhaps we would find it difficult to leave until we had obliged them.

Don't question my generosity. Such gifts should be accepted without argument.

Porfiry," Sarah said. "I'll heat you something." "Girls," said Rostnikov. "Go into the other room and pretend you are doing homework. You can listen from there.

WHEN TRAMPS and hoboes would come to their door for food, the southern white people would drive them away. But if a Negro come, they will feed him. They'll even give them money. They'll ask them: Do you smoke, do you dip snuff? Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'. They was always nice in a nasty way to Negroes. But their own color, they wouldn't do that for 'em.

My neighbors were angry with my mother, because she fed hungry men at the back door. They said it would bring others, and then what would she do? She said, "I'll feed them till the food runs out." It wasn't until years later, I realized the fear people had of these men. We didn't have it in our house.

when I offered to either stay and help or go bake a pie, it was the pie that was most needed. It took six pies to finish the roof. I had not known that pies were such an important part of construction.

Anybody in the world can come to India and find home.

The man who comes to fix the cable approaches her when she is alone in the house. 'Is there anything to eat?' he asks. 'There are some chapatis,' she replies. 'Can I get something to eat?' he repeats.

Soccer is the international language. If you bring a soccer ball with you to any other country, you can make friends instantly.

Human interaction is something that I believe, as humans, we crave for. And that is where bars and social environments come into play.

People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.

I'd love to work in a restaurant. You get to meet new people all the time and constantly socialize. There are no dull moments when you're serving. It would definitely be a fun job to have.

Sharing food has always had a central place in civilized societies; it's no accident that so many of our cultural, religious and patriotic rituals are involved with eating.

I didn't want to be the aunt where you come over and can't sit on the sofa.

I will take a picture with anyone who wants one. All they have to do is ask. If I don't want to take a picture, there is an easy way to solve that problem - I don't leave my house.

The house I was born in in Somalia was right next to a big market. A lot of beggars or panhandlers would be in front of our house constantly, and my grandfather and grandmother would always invite them in to have food with us and have them take whatever was left over.