Tables Quotes

• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.

  Shauna Niequist

  Loneliness, World, Littles

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• It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Food, Cooking, Matter

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  If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Courage, Menus, Assertiveness

  "Elizabeth Warren: I've been treated differently". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. October 22, 2014.

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• A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "Albert Einstein". Book by Dana Meachen Rau (p. 19), 2003.

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• Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony in Columbia University, New York, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.

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  A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Positive, Single, Wise

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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  Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.

  Drake

  Bridges, Live And Learn, You Live You Learn

  Song: Pound Cake

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• Let us bring something new to the table. Let us use our pain always to remember the others, bring them into the conversation, and get beyond the stereotypes and prejudices that create injustice all over the world.

  Karen Armstrong

  Pain, World, Prejudice

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

  Don DeLillo

  Family, Art, Expression

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.685, Pan Macmillan

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• You can fake your way to the table, but ultimately you have to learn how to eat.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fake, Way

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• How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

  Megan Alexander

  Prayer, Excellent, Be You

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• Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone.

  Pope Francis

  Being Alone, Basics, Loneliness And Solitude

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Coffee, Sea, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.253, Collector's Library

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• I want you to stop running from thing to thing to thing, and to sit down at the table, to offer the people you love something humble and nourishing, like soup and bread, like a story, like a hand holding another hand while you pray. We live in a world that values us for how fast we go, for how much we accomplish, for how much life we can pack into one day. But I'm coming to believe it's in the in-between spaces that our lives change, and that the real beauty lies there.

  Shauna Niequist

  Running, Real, Life Changing

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• I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Party, Joy, Drink

  William Shakespeare (1912). “Every Day with Shakespeare”

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• I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.

  Langdon Winner

  Restaurants

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he taught to sit at the dinner table where it behaved very well. He was in the habit of putting any scraps he left onto the cat's plate. One day puss did not take his place punctually, but presently appeared with two mice, one of which it placed on its master's plate, the other on its own.

  Beatrix Potter

  Cat, Sunday, Two

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• When a glass sits on a table here, people don't wonder if it's half filled or half empty. They just hope it's good beer.

  Sherman Alexie

  Beer, Glasses, People

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

  Carl Honore

  Reading, Making Love, Cooking

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

  Socrates

  Ideas, Two, Bed

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

  Andre Simon

  Wine, Meals, Vineyards

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• I think talent is like a water table under the earth—you tap it with your effort and it comes through you.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Thinking, Water, Effort

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.219, Shambhala Publications

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