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Quotes About Hospitality

Some hotels have a lot of mirrors, chairs, you can't find the plugs, the music is complicated. But the Nobu concept is beautiful, simple.
~ Nobu Matsuhisa
I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.
~ Toby Young
Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Community through food is my mission; it is what I do.
~ Kimbal Musk
A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
~ Danny Meyer
I like to set up bars at my parties so people can make their own cocktails and mix and match and teach each other different things.
~ Jeremiah Brent
When you're going to meet your man's mom and dad, it's always nice to bring them something homemade and from the heart.
~ Katie Lee
When I'm in the mood for room service, my favorite order is a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.
~ Pharrell Williams
I love to have a dinner party. I love to have people over. I like the feeling it creates in my home - having guests laughing and telling their stories - and I put a lot of thought into it. I plan my menu kind of depending on whatever mood I'm in.
~ Katie Lee
History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house - one group always wielded more power and influence.
~ Daniel Humm
Israel changed my life. It is one of the most amazing countries that I have ever been to.
~ Frank Grillo
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people.
~ Rithy Panh
The most important thing is how you are made to feel in your home.
~ Mauricio Pochettino
For some reason, I have always been interested in the stories of people who are exiled and who are deprived of rights. My main motive to make a film is to keep the society in mind and the hospitality adhered.
~ Claire Denis
There's no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.
~ Thomas Wolfe
He walked into the house, smelling baked cookies. Now if that didn't make a house a home, nothing would. Mmm! he said loudly to announce his presence. Something smells good! Cricket poked her head out of the kitchen. Come poach a cookie or two. Yes, ma'am. He strolled into the kitchen and was pleased to see Suzy dressed in a pretty pink apron with red hearts on it. Hello, Priscilla, he said. Hi, Suzy.
~ Tina Leonard
present visitors with a tiny beaded pin of the American and Irish flags. It was a big turnout the day I was there, eighteen
~ Tom Brokaw
If the shortest distance to any man's heart is his stomach, then one of the better compliments a man can give a woman is to ask for seconds.
~ Tom Clancy
Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one?
~ Tom Stoppard
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.
~ Toni Morrison
Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.
~ Toni Morrison
When good people take you in and treat you good, you ought to try to be good back.
~ Toni Morrison
Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter. Word was that underneath the good times and the easy money something evil ran the streets and nothing was safe—not even the dead
~ Toni Morrison
A feeling of welcome washes over me. I walk toward her, right up to the fence that separates my place from the neighbor's
~ Toni Morrison