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Quotes About Hospitality

entertaining friends, and using your money to spread largesse, sometimes even in a way that wouldn't touch your emotions.
~ Catherine Cookson
Come on. There's such a thing as overstayin' your welcome.
~ Catherine Cookson
It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Y]ou'll be part of the family. Able to share all we have, so long as you share what you have. We make our lives into a potluck dinner—everyone brings their best with lots of pepper and no one goes hungry. Or lonely.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I am here to tell you We are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too, We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare— But you might have to sleep on the floor.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share
~ Catherynne M. Valente
the front desk
~ Cathy McDavid
having people over at all house very day of the week.
~ Cathy Yardley
Hey man, how's things in Chocolate
~ Geraldine Brooks
Food brings people together on many different levels. It's nourishment of the soul and body it's truly love.
~ Giada De Laurentiis
For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience.
~ Gina Greenlee
éramos acolhidos em toda a parte com aquela expansiva cordialidade americana sob a qual se percebe, quase sempre, um veio de condescendência.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
replaced the cigarette, took a plate of kidneys and bacon from the maid, and accepted a piece of bread from a plate proffered by Hilary.
~ Gladys Mitchell
Truth and love do not need walls. Christ did not build walls. He tore them down. And he prayed, not in lofty, beautiful churches but in people's homes
~ Glenn Meade
Beauty is everywhere a very welcome guest.
~ Goethe
Life is a gift. You are here as a guest. Appreciate your stay. Enjoy your being.
~ Gordana Biernat
When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
~ Congo proverb
Bread is the warmest, kindest of words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name.
~ Author Unknown
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
~ P. J. O'Rourke, unverified
Coffee and a barista kind Prepare me for the morning grind
~ Terri Guillemets, 2008
Shut the door. Not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the cozyness.
~ Mark Twain
Let grief and guilt stay not too long as houseguests.
~ Terri Guillemets
...and mighty proud I am, and ought to be thankful to God Almighty that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
~ Samuel Pepys