Quotes of: Kitchen-table Keyword

To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep a...

Adam Smith

It's not that bad things never happen. But there's a pattern in which most people are calm, resourceful, altruistic, and they improvise emergency systems that work really well - whether it's getting the babies out of a collapsed hospital or putting t...

Rebecca Solnit

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' ...

A. S. Byatt

It hadn't ever been on the table. Commitment had never been an option. There was never any love.

Caffè Latte

This was going to be worse than the time I table danced in the diner in high school!

Restless Spirits

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.

Tiesto

...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.

Nathanael West

It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Penelope Lively

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

Roy Blunt

When you're unemployed for six months or a year, it is hard to qualify for a lease, so even the option of relocating to find a job is often off the table.

Janet Yellen

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

Lea Michele

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

Marcus du Sautoy

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Norman Cook

For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.

Arthur Schwartz

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

Ellen G. White

I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

Regardless of what our national credit rating is, people will always want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, fuel for their cars, and clothes on their backs.

Robert Kiyosaki

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Robert B. Laughlin

An enormous number of mothers in the U.S. are working double time, graveyard shifts, and more than one job just to put food on the table for their kids.

Tina Brown