Top 58 Hospitable Quotes
#2. Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space.
Krista Tippett
#3. At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were there, sous-vide cooked fish, nevertheless, have managed to make that a hospitable environment for them.
Harvey V. Fineberg
#4. Every man should be the intellectual proprietor of himself, honest with himself, and intellectually hospitable; and upon every brain, reason should be enthroned as king.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#5. We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home-Earth-is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of course, but the conditions that have made it hospitable for human beings.
Al Gore
#6. The Congress, the Administration and the public all share a profound commitment to the rescue of our natural environment, and the preservation of the Earth as a place both habitable by and hospitable to man.
Richard M. Nixon
#8. I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.
Francesca Annis
#9. Her anxiety was turning her usually sunny disposition into something less than hospitable. "As
Amanda Forester
#10. May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.
John Henry Jowett
#11. Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.
Frances Trollope
#12. For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.
Luther Standing Bear
#13. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life?
What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should
conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it
all figured out.
Paul Davies
#14. Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean ...
Epeli Hau'ofa
#15. To achieve a just society we have to reason together about the meaning of the good life, and to create a public culture hospitable to the disagreements that will inevitably arise.
Michael J. Sandel
#16. Math and science need to be made more hospitable places for women. And women need all the growth mindset they can get to take their rightful places in these fields.
Carol S. Dweck
#17. The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.
John Ashbery
#18. What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Max Beerbohm
#20. Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
Clifford Geertz
#21. Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
Greg Bear
#22. It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land.
Lottie Moon
#23. To be alive is to move around, to search for better places, to scavenge the planet looking for more hospitable islands.
Fatema Mernissi
#24. Jesus modeled true leadership as both personal and hospitable.
Adam LiVecchi
#25. There are no kinder, more generous, more welcoming, more hospitable people in America than in the 92 counties of Indiana.
Mike Pence
#26. Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.
Oliver Goldsmith
#27. 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
#28. Los Angeles is more hospitable to writers [Than NY]. It's less claustrophobic. It feels more unpredictable and dangerous, and the landscape is less structured. You see coyotes lurking all over the place. It just feels wilder and more dangerous.
Nick Antosca
#29. Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.
George W. Bush
#30. Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade."
Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?"
Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.
Nancy Werlin
#31. It is this kind of resourcefulness, I think, that explains how this hardy band of Vikings managed to survive more than one thousand years on an island that is about as hospitable to human habitation as the planet Pluto - if Pluto were a planet, that is, which it's not.
Eric Weiner
#32. I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel.
Beth Ditto
#33. There is nothing wrong with not wanting to be a hospitable person and have groups of people in your home touching your personables.
Amy Sedaris
#34. America is a country formed by diverse communities from different countries. Overall, the country is very hospitable and gives opportunities to grow. Saying that, I'd also say I'm not a 'white' immigrant; a South Asian's experience is different than, say, a European immigrant's.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#35. Andrews had probably been some innocent and hospitable person of a psychic disposition who had simply been overwhelmed by the colonizing souls.
Terry Pratchett
#36. I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you off till your jaws struck work and wouldn't wag no more.
Laura E. Richards
#37. A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.
Alexander Cockburn
#38. The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and polite, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.
Ruth Benedict
#39. Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOB's skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hosts' rugs. And the deadweight of the body.
Seemed only hospitable.
J.R. Ward
#40. Mutual tolerance is the stepping stone to mutual respect. A hospitable mind is the key to a neighboring or an alien spirit, looked by dogma and guarded by tradition.
Ameen Rihani
#41. Extraterrestrial intelligence could have sent DNA-seed packets out through space to plant life on hospitable planets such as earth.
Timothy Leary
#43. Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and women and obligatory for Christians to offer an open and hospitable space where strangers can cast off their strangeness and become our fellow human beings.
Henri Nouwen
#44. To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find a life which I cannot describe, a joy which I cannot make others comprehend, a peace such as is found only under the hospitable roof of our best Friend.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#45. The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
Sabine Baring-Gould
#46. The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
Gary Hamel
#47. In the same [hospitable] manner that a Calabrian would press you to eat his pears.
Horace
#48. Our definition of VIP is not as big as in Macau. But for us, they are VIPs even if they don't spend a lot because we are very hospitable here.
Andrew Tan
#49. The radical and the reactionary loathe the present. They see it as an aberration and a deformity. Both are ready to proceed ruthlessly and recklessly with the present, and both are hospitable to the idea of self-sacrifice.
Eric Hoffer
#50. The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality.
George Eliot
#51. It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over what I did wrong each day. It shifts my perspective, thus making my body and mind more hospitable places for healing and positive energy.
Sharon E. Rainey
#52. Be hospitable to strangers because you might be entertaining an angel instead.
Brenda Pandos
#53. I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave
with all five fingers
for their hospitality.
George W. Bush
#54. Finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans ... .
Jon Krakauer
#55. In this hospitable world it is much harder to be unsuccessful than successful.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.
Paul Theroux
#57. The Bible teaches that our homes should be hospitable and that those who come in and out of our homes should sense the presence of Christ.
Billy Graham
#58. The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
Li Keqiang
