Quotes About Hospitality

Don't make jokes about food.

I attended a dinner party where the hostess kept the bottle of water sequestered under the table, guarded by her feet during the entire meal. Midway through dinner, completely dessicated, I could hold out no longer and summoned up the last bit of moisture in my mouth to form the words to ask for a sip. With some reluctance, she reached down to extract the bottle and poured a tiny trickle into my glass. Right after my ration was doled out, she screwed the top back on and stowed away the bottle.

Needless to say, it was inconceivable that I would be welome in, let alone invited to, their home. It was as well, then, that I did not limit myself only to those places where people might wish me to be.

To find God, you must welcome everything.

Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.

God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.

God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow.

When we break bread and give it to each other, fear vanishes and God becomes very close.

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.

It was never decreed that a god mustn't pay hotel bills.

Dr. Bashiri, if I ever want to put a curse in someone, I say, 'May God give you a restaurant.

To the guests that must go, bid God's speed and brush away all traces of their steps.

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

Now I don't have anything against Mexican people, but for God's sakes, sign the gust book on the way in.

You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.

If you can't make freinds with God, make freinds with someone is friends and maybe you'll get invited to the party.

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life's most civilized pleasures.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

A kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house.

To make a pleasant and friendly impression is not alone good manners, but equally good business.

Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people.

Good things happen when you meet strangers.