Quotes About Hospitality

Haloes of heat shimmer from the guests and their hosts. The candles burn brighter. The plump flies of dusk now congregate around the plates of cheese and crackers on the wooden table. From the cut glass bowl of children's punch, sweet rosy fumes spiral up into the air.

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.

When the two terms and their definitions are combined into one term, translated philoxenia, we see that hospitality literally means "showing brotherly love to strangers.

While hospitality may sometimes be perceived as a unique gifting for some people, Scripture is clear that loving strangers is a biblical mandate to anyone who follows Jesus.

Andy Stanley writes,"We must remove every possible obstacle from the path of the disinterested, suspicious, here-against-my-will, would-rather-be-somewhere-else, unchurched guests. The parking lot, hallways, auditorium, and stage must be obstacle-free zones."5 I

Wake up, my guest / You have slept long / In the house of my ribs, / The House of my heart / Wake up now, / See through my eyes, / Walk with my feet, / Yush, my old friend

Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die.

Wine me, dine me, Deep Space Nine me.

Room service? Send up a larger room." [ A Night at the Opera ]

You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

L'uomo socialissimo è l'uomo segregatissimo. Casa mai vuota d'ospiti è già figura di Gulag.

we welcome all who are willing to follow we welcome the fish we welcome the birds we welcome the insects we welcome the four-legs we welcome the two-legs we welcome you /// come with us

Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along thirty of their relatives? NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE Dear Gabacho: Mexicans and parties—was there ever a coupling more spectacularly grotesque? We drink mucho, we eat mucho, we fight mucho, we love mucho, we mucho mucho.

I'm a big fan of doing 'Triple D.' But I don't want to do it forever, don't get me wrong! Travel away from my family, are you crazy? But do you know what it does for these mom-and-pop restaurant joints? It changes their lives forever. I mean, their businesses will never be the same.

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

Well, if a Little Fuzzy finds a door open, I'd like to know why he shouldn't come in and look around.

Never refuse homemade brownies.

It's in the quiet little towns, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.

But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humor which belonged to an older day..

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

She pressed me to take some cream crackers also but I declined because I thought I would make too much noise eating them.