Quotes About Gatherings

He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.

My best hostess tip is to have good food and really good music!

Everything tastes better outdoors.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking

If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion.

When we no longer have good cooking in the world, we will have no literature, nor high and sharp intelligence, nor friendly gatherings, nor social harmony.

Will struggled a lot with his manic highs and deep lows. During his good times he was the life of the party. During his dark times he would withdraw from social gatherings and stay at home.

The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me. Then other people feel like they have to stop what they're doing and hug me, too. It's time-wasting dominoes.

The reason I pull Irish exits is not because I think I'm too busy and cool to be bothered with pleasantries. It's that when there is a gathering of more than thirty people I don't want to waste your time with hellos and good-byes. I think it's actually the more polite thing to do, because I'm not coercing partygoers into some big farewell moment with me.

Entertaining is an act of friendship and cooking is an act of love.

The Esbat differed from the Sabbat by being primarily for business...very often the Esbat was for sheer enjoyment only.

The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

Eye infections were always worse in winter when everyone crowded together and the fires smoked.

To your cabin," Tammy said. "May you have many dinners in front of this fire, with people you care for.

the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the artworks on display,

An attraction for him was the natives' habit of gathering after work, a custom that helped keep them warm and cheerful as they danced away what Johnny fetchingly called the "long white evenings.

So gathering after gathering is intended to so enthrall you with the grandeur of God's grace that you can't think of anything better than being a tool of that grace in the lives of others.

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I've always wanted to be an expert on tadpoles; I've always fancied being a tadpole expert. It's a wonderful life if you become an experty tadpoleous, as they are known in the trade. You get invited out to all the smart parties and social gatherings. When smart people are making out their lists for the dinner parties, they say, 'Now, who can we have to make up the ten? A tadpole expert would be very nice. He could sit next to Lady Sonia.

In the following instructions I have no praise to offer, because your gatherings do more harm than good.