Top 100 At The Table Quotes
#1. Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.
Kay Robertson
#2. My mother is a good Christian woman who would never refuse someone a seat at her table, but I knew this was a nightmare for her. With Lula and Grandma at the table together, it's much more likely that my father will try to stab someone with his fork.
Janet Evanovich
#3. If we want children to learn to tend the land and nourish themselves and have conversations at the table, we need to communicate with them in ways that are positive.
Alice Waters
#4. As governor I would have made sure that I bargained fairly but firmly, been able to get the changes that were needed to balance the budget, but done that through collective bargaining and making sure that our public employees had a voice at the table.
Mary Burke
#6. Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.
Charlie Gonzalez
#7. The person to whom I am carrying a plate of food is someone whom it is an honor to serve. For he has been invited to eat and drink at the table of a King.
Elisabeth Elliot
#8. The Eucharist is a symbol of that as you have bread, the staple food of the poor, and wine, a luxury of the rich, which are brought together at the table.
Shane Claiborne
#9. Living on a planet of fixed size requires compromise, and while we are the only party capable of negotiating, we are not the only party at the table. We've never claimed more, and we've never had less.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#10. The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
Henry Fielding
#11. I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner.
Malcolm X
#12. If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.
Michael Enzi
#13. Owning news makes you important; it gives you a seat at the table.
Tina Brown
#14. FACE THE NATION is the second oldest program on television. It began in 1954, fifty-eight years ago. I've been here at the table for the last twenty-one.
Rodney Erickson
#15. Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.
Whoopi Goldberg
#16. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.
Elizabeth Warren
#17. It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.
Janet Fitch
#18. One frequent visitor, an opera singer, often rang up Rasputin simply to sing to him his favorite songs over the telephone. Taking the telephone, Rasputin danced around the room, holding the earpiece to his ear. At the table, Rasputin stroked the arms and hair of the women sitting next to him.
Robert K. Massie
#19. He squints at me. "Except for the red hair and freckles, you look okay. You'll be fine and dandy sitting at the table with a napkin on your lap.
Christina Baker Kline
#20. Everyone brings their crumb of information to the table. If they are not at the table, we don't benefit from their crumb.
Sue Gardner
#21. At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.
Jakob Nielsen
#22. A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Julia Alvarez
#23. Every member of Congress deserves a seat at the table to be involved in the process. I will continue fighting for this to become a reality in Washington, and will be running for speaker of the House.
Dan Webster
#24. I've seen a lot of good things and a lot of the bad of what Hollywood can bring. At the end of the day, I've found that when you try and fit in, that's a way to go crazy; you kind of lose yourself. I'm sometimes the different one at the table, but I don't care.
Drew Sidora
#25. He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
Hanya Yanagihara
#26. God damn it," Thomas said as he sat down at the table, carrying a tray so piled with food that it was a miracle he could even lift it. "Aren't we all just too good-looking for words.
John Scalzi
#27. Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table.
Mo Ibrahim
#28. Ike! Jack yells, pointin at the villains at the table. Look! He's takin seconds!
Oh no, he ain't!
Moira Young
#29. Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#30. You heard Prince Perfect," Mal said, and joined us at the table. Nikolai grinned. "I've had a lot of nicknames, but that one is easily the most accurate.
Leigh Bardugo
#31. I haven't seen Joel for a while. Where he once projected all laidback cool, now he's edgy, stalking around the kitchen. Alice churns out pancakes and the younger kids sit at the table, watching as if their older siblings are Nickelodeon.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#32. Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.
Anthony Bourdain
#33. I don't think you have to make this choice about being on one side or the other side. My feeling is that when we are committed to growing the economy and making sure that our public employees have a place at the table through collective bargaining, everyone wins.
Mary Burke
#34. Oh, I get it. You're doing the girlfriend - what's her name? Megan?" "Merit," answered the girl at the table. "And it's a pretty good costume." I opened my mouth to object, to proclaim that I wasn't doing Ethan's girlfriend, I was Ethan's girlfriend, and I was doing Ethan.
Chloe Neill
#35. In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.
Nicole Krauss
#36. It hasn't been easy to listen to the conversations at the table. Even without anyone expecting me to say anything. It hasn't been easy to sit there watching other people's lives go on. I
Colleen Faulkner
#37. There's over 2000 donkeys in this tournament and I had to be at the table with none of them.
Mike Matusow
#38. All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
Gary Bauer
#39. Food that's served at the table in a paper parcel always creates a remarkable culinary moment when opened, because the package is full of aromatic steam from the lightly cooked ingredients inside.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#40. Her daughters were eagerly called to partake of her joy. Jane resolutely kept her place at the table; but Elizabeth, to satisfy her mother, went to the window - she looked, - she saw Mr. Darcy with him, and sat down again by her sister.
Jane Austen
#41. Guests are people who come to your home to see you whine at the table, bark loudly, jump on women wearing pantyhose, and do other tricks which you wouldn't think of doing just for the family.
Peg Kehret
#42. If I were straight and I were trying to seduce a woman, I could do it just by standing up at the table when she came back from the bathroom. It works. Every time I do that, all the straight men are sitting at the table and their wives are kicking them. "Look at that!" "You never do that for me!"
Tom Ford
#43. Everybody in this room knows the basic rule: if you don't have a seat at the table, you are probably on the menu.
Elizabeth Warren
#44. When we're married and he looks at me sitting beside him at the table, he should feel as if he's fought a great battle and accomplished something - namely, winning me. He'll treasure me more. I like being treasured.
Linda Howard
#45. I explained that when our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender friends aren't welcome at the table, then we don't feel welcome either, and that not every young adult gets married or has children, so we need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.
Rachel Held Evans
#46. Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.
Nora Roberts
#47. 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
#49. Well, capitalism is going to grow and grow. The nature of it is that the guy who has the most poker chips on the table has more leverage than everyone else. He can eventually outbluff everyone else and outraise everyone else at the table. That's what has happened and it needs to be corrected.
Simon Baker
#50. [On highly politicized Islamists:] In the name of freedom they demand the right to renounce freedom. In the language of tolerance they demand that intolerance be granted a dignified place at the table.
Phyllis Chesler
#51. Seated at the table, high in her firmament of gin, she looked critically at her brother and his wife, remembering some real or imagined injustice of her youth, for with any proximity the constellations of some families generate among themselves an asperity that nothing can sweeten.
John Cheever
#52. This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.
Cecile Richards
#53. I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.
Jeff Smith
#54. When you go to auditions, pretend you already have the job and you're just presenting - almost like you're at the table read. Don't go in with an air of, 'Please like me,' or, 'Please hire me.' You're like, 'Here's my take on it. Take it or leave it. I've got a lot of other things to do today.'
Mary Lynn Rajskub
#55. 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.
Debi Mazar
#56. Won't bother you, and you'll be safe here. You think you can manage grace at the table for a little privacy and guaranteed security?" She looked at him and smiled. He nodded. "Besides," she continued, "you can always call me if you want to talk sin.
Hanya Yanagihara
#57. Young'uns!" Mrs. P. interrupted. "No bad language, not at the table, please. And need I remind you, I am the table!
Kathryn Lasky
#58. It's cold outside, Mr. Snicket.'
'So I'll shiver,' I said. 'I've shivered before.'
She looked down at the table and traced her father's name with her black fingernail. 'So have I,' she said.
Lemony Snicket
#59. I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down.
Ruth Reichl
#60. Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.
Shannon L. Alder
#61. Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#62. Others have said it before me. If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate - strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.
Elizabeth Warren
#63. Have a good look at the thing. Look at the table too, and satisfy yourselves there is no trickery. I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack.
H.G.Wells
#64. It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#65. I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.
Connie Nielsen
#66. The beauty of our democracy lies in the American value of equality: if you vote, you have a seat at the table. If you speak, you have a chance to persuade others. A billionaire and a minimum wage earner have the same power at the ballot box.
Christine Pelosi
#67. Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.
Alice Waters
#68. I stare at the table for a moment, lost in thoughts of what it will be like to hold a human being that I made in my hands. I can write a song and I can play it until my fingers bleed, but I can't carry music in my hands. I can't touch it or smell it. I can't give it my heart.
Cassia Leo
#69. Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and the translucent veil of general okayness evaporates to reveal the honest, ugly parts underneath.
Sarah Ockler
#70. Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
Bill Moyers
#71. Downstairs in the kitchen, Marco and Sophia - my grandparents, who have insisted I call them by their first names - were already there. Sophia stood over the oven, pans hissing, as the smell of bacon filled the air. Marco sat at the table, the morning newspaper opened up in front of him.
Jessica Sorensen
#72. She sat at the table with a cup of tea, looking plump and angelic as always, no sign of having lost any sleep the night before.
Maggie Stiefvater
#73. In the wake of the Supreme Court of Canada decision (Chaoulli-Zeliotis), the Canadian Medicare system is about to be redesigned. Physicians must not just sit at the table, but must position themselves at the head, where they can lead and direct the nature of that design.
Brian Day
#74. It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other and everyone listens. If there's good food, it's much better.
Andrea Bocelli
#75. As a child growing up, it's going to be what you're going to remember most. What you liked or not liked then is going to define who you are at the table!
Daniel Boulud
#76. [Telzey] took out a pocket edition law library and sat down at the table.
She clicked on the library's viewscreen, tapped the clearing and index buttons. Behind the screen, one of the multiple rows of pinhead tapes shifted slightly as the index was flicked into reading position.
James H. Schmitz
#77. Papa sat down at the table and poured his tea from the china tea set with pink flowers on the edges. I waited for him to ask Jaja and me to take a sip, as he always did. A love sip, he called it, because you shared the little things you loved with the people you love.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#78. A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.
Laurie David
#79. Yes, right, and the earth is flat," I replied. Stupidly, I said it out loud. Everyone else at the table looked at me, taken aback.
"No, Gwenny, the earth is a globe," Caroline kindly told me. "I couldn't believe it at first, either. But apparently it flies through the universe at lightning speed.
Kerstin Gier
#80. I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.
Elena Anaya
#81. He stood at the table facing Flora and blowing heavily on his tea and staring at her. Flora did not mind. It was quite interesting: like having tea with a rhinoceros.
Stella Gibbons
#82. Capitalism and democracy are the opposite of each other. Capitalism is a system that guarantees that a few are going to do very well, and everybody else is going to serve the few. Democracy means everybody has a seat at the table. Everybody.
Michael Moore
#83. If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.
David Levien
#84. I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them.
John Green
#85. Tonight it was enough to be one of them. To be someplace where he always had a spot at the table, where everybody already knew that he didn't like olives on his pizza, and they always looked happy to see him.
Rainbow Rowell
#86. I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table.
Paul Martin
#87. You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
Greg Kinnear
#88. You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
Ben Stein
#89. Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.
Gloria Steinem
#90. The hallmark of futile negotiations is that each side regards [an] overarching reality as a problem for the people on the other side of the table, rather than one for everyone at the table.
William Voegeli
#91. Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
Madonna Ciccone
#92. As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
Grace Meng
#93. I reached out my hand to her. She had been there at the table, this sad, kind, talented woman. She had heard everything, but had been unable to speak to us.
Priya Parmar
#94. Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table.
Dennis Ross
#95. Every company I know is looking for more women at the table. Every board is looking for more women at the table. There's a reason why men want to understand the challenges women face, address them, because then they're going to be better hirers, attracters and retainers of women.
Sheryl Sandberg
#96. I take in the five guys sitting at the table; four of them are attractive. I definitely wouldn't turn them away if I accidentally discovered one of them naked in a guestroom while roaming around this place.
Danielle Jamie
#97. When I eat, I have to chop up everything on the plate and stir it all together. It devastates my mom. Everyone at the table is like, 'That looks like cat vomit.' And I stir my Coke with a spoon until it's flat.
Margot Robbie
#98. You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.
Emeril Lagasse
#99. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker.
Mike McDermott
#100. You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.
Donald L. Hicks
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