Quotes About Tables And Chairs

#1. If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.

Mark Boyle

#2. Said good-bye to my corner. - What will happen to the tables and chairs? I asked.

Patti Smith

#3. Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#4. How many more times are we going to cower under tables and chairs, whimpering like mindless dogs, thinking that someone else has the responsibility to save and protect us?

Ted Nugent

#5. The glory of the carpenter is the tables and chairs he manufactures; the glory of God is you and me because He manufactured us!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Eleanora Duse

#7. Paintings may serve a spiritual purpose for Catholics, but remember too that Protestants see God everywhere, in everything. By painting everyday things - tables and chairs, bowls and pitchers, soldiers and maids - are they not celebrating God's creation as well?" I

Tracy Chevalier

#8. I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Denis Leary

#9. When one is a child, the disposition of objects, tables and chairs and doors, seems part of the natural order: a house-move lets in chaos - as it does for a dog.

Elizabeth Bowen

#10. All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"
and what a mistake.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. All women, and men of color - we were owned like tables and chairs. We spent a hundred years getting a legal identity as human beings. That's a big thing.

Gloria Steinem

#12. Who? Mr. Dalton has his hand firmly on Grace's elbow, as though she can't manoeuvre herself through the blockade of tables and chairs.
She could fly right through you, thinks Jack.

Helen Humphreys

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

W.S. Gilbert

#14. But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

Wislawa Szymborska

#15. The room hovered around me with great gentleness, as if the chairs and the tables and the walls were withholding their weight out of sympathy for my sudden frailty.

Sylvia Plath

#16. The chairs and tables, decorated with runners of Italian silk, were Disney-movie themed, because Kelly ate, breathed and farted Disney.

Heidi Cullinan

#17. I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories.

J. California Cooper

#18. Juan Garcia began putting chairs upside down on the tables. Gathering Mr. Packard's spoon, cup, and saucer, Dynah watched the old man walk stiffly across the room. His arthritis was troubling him again.

Francine Rivers

#19. I like living sparsely. In the main room, there's no furniture - no tables, no chairs, no coffee table - not even a decaffeinated coffee table.

Sebastian Horsley

#20. One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs

David Hilbert

#21. 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")

Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal

#22. Constancy is my true nature! I shall never look at another woman for the rest of my days, or rather, I shall look, but they shall be to me like chairs, or tables. Not that I intend to sit, of course, or eat off them, but in the sense that they are but furniture.

Anne Fortier

#23. My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action.

Thomm Quackenbush

#24. When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

Neil Gaiman

#25. Alchohol doesn't make you fat ... it make you Lean ... on tables, chairs & random people!!! ...

Ashley Purdy

#26. My mother always sits on the edges of things
chairs, ledges, tables
as if she suspects she will have to flee in an instant.

Veronica Roth

#27. When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.

Meredith Brooks

#28. The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.

Elizabeth Bowen

#29. Families, real ones, are chairs and tables and the right number of cups, but I had no means of joining one, and no means of dismissing my own.

Jeanette Winterson

#30. Rather than chairs and tables, I preferred the ground, trees, and caves, for in those places I felt I could lean against the cheek of God.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#31. Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean ... Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

Gerard Way

#32. One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Karl Kraus

#33. An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women.

Alain De Lille

#34. Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.

T. S. Eliot

#35. Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

Emily Post

#36. Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

Charles D. Broad

#37. Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

Rajneesh