Quotes about Hospitality
I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.
— Drew Barrymore
We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.
— Letitia Baldrige
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy is the house that shelters a friend.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.
— Dorothy Day
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
— George Bernard Shaw
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
— Mark Twain
I come from a Greek household. My mother wouldn't let the FedEx man come in without eating.
— Arianna Huffington
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
— GK Chesterton
Ireland treats you more like a friend than a tourist.
— Will Rogers
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
— William Faulkner