Quotes About Hospitality

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.

There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end.

I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

Dining rooms are really all about the table and the chairs.

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.

I live in a world where I want everyone to be able to put beurre blanc on the table for dinner.

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost never read it. It would be like sitting at their dinner table and opening a packet of sandwiches.

I was a dishwasher at one of those Japanese places that cook on your table. Not too fun.

I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, and I love socializing around a dinner table.

Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure.

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

To me, it's a religious experience to sit down at anyone's table. I feel so invited, like it's a sacred place.

I wish anytime I went into a nice restaurant and asked for a table, they said, 'Well I'm sure you don't want one in the corner.'