Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Table. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Table Quotes And Sayings by 94 Authors including Rainbow Rowell,Carolyn Brown,Simeon Strunsky,James Howell,Ina Garten for you to enjoy and share.
Richie is the head of this household,' her mum said. 'Richie is the one who puts food on our table.'
What food? Eleanor wanted to ask. And, for that matter, what table?
Table. Her phone rang at the same time she flipped the book open. Mama,
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
Words and works eat not at one table.
I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
Small, noncomparative, highly labeled data sets usually belong in tables.
the tables were taken by law students talking about rave parties or 'junior associates', in other words, those things which interest law students
Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.
The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity.
I'm at the round table, where your seat at?
Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?
Though I may be efficient at the family table, I linger at the table for two.
And once again, there was a table and several worlds between them.
When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair.
Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them
The dining room table in the home of a person living alone becomes the entire world, divided into countries: the area for the mail, for work if there is any, a small duchy set aside for the placement of one dish, one bowl, one fork.
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
Mortification, party of one, your table is now ready.
I Keep a Wholesome Table."
Manannan Mac Lir
The table seemed to have risen a little toward the sky like a mechanical dancing platform, giving the people around it a sense of being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only food, warmed by its only lights.
Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation".
Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly each one I had attended; the repartee is sharper than the cutlery.
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.
TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.
Can you help me move those tables against the wall?" Mama pointed to five tables in the back corner. "The funeral home said they needed four feet of clearance all the way around.
It's nice when there's stuff in the middle of the table. That's when the best conversations start to happen.
I don't go to restaurants, I go to tables.
I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.
A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.
The billiard table is better than the doctor.
Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table.
We need more men to sit at the table ... at the kitchen table.
are important sources of emotional, creative and spiritual nourishment for me. It seems there is never enough space at our kitchen table; the children need a surface to draw on, between the flowers and fruit bowls, and sometimes it feels like a game of musical chairs to seat everyone
For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.
At mealtime a very broad cloth is laid on the trestle table in the solar. to facilitate service, places are set along one side only. On that side the cloth falls to the floor, doubling as a communal napkin...there are several kinds of knives...but no forks.
You want a round table meeting, we can have a round table meeting."
"I love round tables," said Magnus brightly. "They suit me so much better than square.
Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.
Its time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table
Her breasts rested on the edge of the table.
Does my request make sense in terms of my child's age and ability? (Am I expecting an eight-year-old to have perfect table manners?)
*** Teacher: "Why are you on the floor?" Johnny: "Because you said to do this math problem without tables!
What we eat is the one simplest way to declare who we are - the table reflects our values with a clarity that few other theaters of human behaviour posses.
A ballet of nimble-footed waitresses moved among the tables
There would be a center table, with books of a tranquil sort on it ...
I love round tables. They suit me so much better than a square.
Magnus, pg. 137
It's always a good idea to sit at the fun table.
Sitting down at the table is a sacred event. It's the heart of the home. People have ginormous homes or crappy little homes, but the kitchen is where we always end up sitting. It's where the stories happen, the family happens.
walking straight toward the table like
My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.
At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can't take anything, you won't get anything, and if you can't hold anything, you won't keep anything. And you can't take anything without organization.
A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle.
In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.
One day we'll sit and you'll lay it out on the table, neat like a solitaire deck, but now - why, you can't find all the cards.
Besides, I was right where I wanted to be, sitting at the long mahogany table, candlelit and covered for the occasion with a linen tablecloth, and set with
There are no chairs or tables in my tiny room. Vera says that only savages sit down. Only a prone position is beautiful and becoming to the body. She has spread carpets on mattresses along the walls and scattered pillows over them...
("Thirty-Three Abominations")
Jason looked like her was trying to figure out an equation. Let me get this straight. Your table ran away ... because you polished him with windex.
Tables and beds, he thinks, eating and fucking: life.
If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.
All through that winter and into the spring, when our Tuesday and Thursday-night dinner shifts were done, Matt and I would sit at the long table near the salad bar and plan his end-of-the-year party, our voices echoing importantly in the cavernous wood-panelled dining hall.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
Mendeleyev was said to have modelled the table on the card game solitaire.
So this is the dance, it seems to me: to be the kind of host who honors the needs of the people who gather around his or her table, and to be the kind of guest who comes to the table to learn, not to demand.
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight.
We've got to get women to sit at the table.
While the impressionists make a table to give one particular moment and subordinate the life of the table to its resemblance to this moment, we synthesize every moment (time, place, form, color-tone) and thus build the table.
I am like a table
that eats its own legs off
because it's fallen
in love with the floor.
What kind of dining set defines me as a person?
The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where children learn the lessons that families teach: manners, cooperation, communication, self-control, values.
When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn't
know which way any of them will go.
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail.
If we talk about the glass being half empty or half full, I want to know what does the glass look like from underneath the table?
Who, then, are they, seated here?
Is the table a mirror in which they sit and look?
Are they men eating reflections of themselves?
I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.
This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.
[C]ouches and chairs covered in scratches aim away from one another, making it possible for a dozen people to sit in this room at once and not have to talk to one other person, which is a miracle in furniture arrangement.
All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake.
My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.
Fashionably amusing table manners are a matter of breaking the right rule at the right time.
We gave up everything just to sit at your table.
Life's like an hourglass glued to the table.
If it's not on the table, don't eat it off the floor.
Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen for their ability to eat - and drink! - with the right mixture of abandon and restraint. They should enjoy food, and look upon its preparation and its degustation as one of the human arts.
Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved.
Our table was a large piece of freshly peeled birch bark, laid wrong side up, and our breakfast consisted of hard-bread, fried pork, and strong coffee well sweetened, in which we did not miss the milk.
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.
Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the table thirsty. Here
Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.
Besides Camden and Derek, there were two lacrosse guys, Brad Slater and Dave Markley, which meant that the combined I.Q. of the table was probably . . . four.
Smash the table, why don't you? Kick things about. It's ever so nice to see you embrace the true spirit of the Fraternitus.
Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study
You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero?
From time immemorial, soups and broths have been the worldwide medium for utilizing what we call the kitchen byproducts or as the French call them, the 'dessertes de la table' (leftovers), or 'les parties interieures de la bete', such as head, tail, lights, liver, knuckles and feet.
The table groans under the heavy and blood-bought luxuries gathered with painstaking care, at home and abroad. Fields, forests, rivers and seas, are made tributary here. Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste.
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.
A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.
In, taking a table by the window. Glancing around,
All six of them sat on either side of the long oval conference table, strung out like strong, handsome beads on the string of my love.
why did you tell me to look on the 'other' table instead of 'that' table?