Laurie Colwin Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• People who like to cook like to talk about food....without one cook giving another cook a tip or two, human life might have died out a long time ago.

  Laurie Colwin

  Two, Long, People

• A person cooking is a person giving. Even the simplest food is a gift.

  Laurie Colwin

  Giving, Cooking, Simplest

• The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

  Laurie Colwin

  Safety, Giving, Cooking

• It is a fact of life that people give dinner parties, and when they invite you, you have to turn around and invite them back. Often they retaliate by inviting you again, and you must then extend another invitation. Back and forth you go, like Ping-Pong balls, and what you end up with is called social life.

  Laurie Colwin

  Party, Giving, People

• We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

  Laurie Colwin

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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