Table Quotes

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“I am in no mood to write
candle or radio,
nor am I willing to write table,
pen and paper;
I want to write but a poem.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“If the home is a body, the table is the heart, the beating center, the sustainer of life and health.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

“To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are.

I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

“They all know the truth, that there are only three subjects worth talking about. At least here in these parts," he says, "The weather, which, as they're farmers, affects everything else. Dying and birthing, of both people and animals. And what we eat - this last item comprising what we ate the day before and what we're planning to eat tomorrow. And all three of these major subjects encompass, in one way or another, philosophy, psychology, sociology, anthropology, the physical sciences, history, art, literature, and religion. We get around to sparring about all that counts in life but we usually do it while we're talking about food, it being a subject inseparable from every other subject. It's the table and the bed that count in life. And everything else we do, we do so we can get back to the table, back to the bed.”
― Marlena De Blasi, A Thousand Days in Tuscany: A Bittersweet Adventure

“Everyone is in such a good mood when they've eaten well.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“On the table of consciousness, don't pick up the sugar-coated or well-seasoned lies by mistake. The truth has natural flavors.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“I’m inspired by the Darwinian nature of tables. They have legs, which makes them more evolved than fish. But they won’t truly impress me as furniture until they have wings like a duck.”
― Jarod Kintz, Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world

“To share a table with someone is to share everything.”
― Paul Krueger, Steel Crow Saga

“The negotiators sat at the table, opened the cards, and threw some dice.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“On Love - Love without trust is the love you give a dog. You may call that cute little mutt a member of the family but you don't let him in the kitchen when there's a roast on the table.”
― Marsha Hinds

“I like mini-golf. For me, it’s like long-billiards, where the green has contours, and the table is the floor. This putt-putt course is dilapidated, but that just makes it more challenging.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Lewis and Clark of The Ozarks

“From farm to table, that’s my goal. Of course, I want to get there cheaply, by cutting out the greedy middleman carrying all my groceries from the trees to my kitchen.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“Database means a tables collected different information, so one site is a result of a collected tables????”
― Deyth Banger

“From where do you find such awesome stuff??
...
I'm little puzzled, and confused that people say "No", and they want everything to be on their table!”
― Deyth Banger

“She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

“Only our faith will allow God to prepare the table in front our enemies”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!”
“Captain, you’re drunk!” Lofflin said, stating the obvious while trying to keep his voice level. Blaine grinned at him lopsidedly and giggled, almost choking. He slapped the table, knocking his empty glass over.
“Ye-ss, I am! Don’t ssup-pose you – think I co-uld ssit here an’ calmly wait t’die – dýou? Weee-ll, not ssob-er anyway. Ha ha ha.”
Disgust and hopelessness were swelling inside him. He felt like punching that drunken face till it was either sober or unconscious.
“Damn it, Captain! We need you – the crew needs you! You’re turning your back on them – in our most desperate time!”
― Christina Engela, Demonspawn

“Trouble is, we put our brains into love, when all we need to bring on the table is the heart.”
― Nitya Prakash

“When you've been invited in and offered a seat at the table, good table manners also includes checking your ego. Otherwise, you won't be at the table nor in the room for very long.”
― Sabrina Newby

“Why take minimum from life if you can take maximum from life? Both are on the table!”
― Vambola Tullus

“To gather together around a table – the ultimate symbol of communion – is the only truly authentic way to properly prioritise the ritual of eating.”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“To get the dining-room table in, they carried the table up onto the front porch, then turned it on end like a giant coin and rolled it through the house. Leon ushered Wayne in ahead of the table, confusing him at first, but when his father started humming the Indiana Jones theme and pretending the table was the boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark, he couldn’t help but run away from it in slow-motion.”
― S.A. Hunt, Burn the Dark

“A long table- longer than any we'd ever possessed at out manor- filled most of the space. It was laden with food and wine- so much food, some of it wafting tendrils of steam, that my mouth watered. At least it was familiar, and not some strange faerie delicacy: chicken, bread, peas, fish, asparagus, lamb... it could have been a feast at any mortal manor.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Some will not grasp what you actually bring to the table until there is no place left for them to sit.”
― Christine E. Szymanski

“I want all of the holiness of Eucharist to spill out beyond the church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”
― Shauna Niequist, Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with Recipes

“Those unwilling to help take some weight off your plate are not fit to sit at your table.”
― Christine E. Szymanski

“The norms of our table signal the norms of our community. (p. 55)”
― Justin Whitmel Earley, The Common Rule: Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction

“I had a great aunt, Leona, who would sit and eat raw onions with me like apples as a kid. She would pour salt on the table cloth, dip it in and take a bite. What a genius.”
― Aesop Rock