Table Quotes

Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.

When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.

I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life.

The average politician was crooked. That was my ambition, to be a crooked politician. I'd see them in these restaurants, and they'd all hold these conferences. I'd see politicians who were supposed to be on opposite sides of issues all together at one table.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

It really bothers me when people don't use coasters. Particularly on my table.

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.

It’s not the size of the feast, but the number of people that can fit around the table.

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

CIA has been treated with enormous respect and our expertise is valued for what we bring to the table.

There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

When a man tells me he's going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.

I love to play pool.

We've got to get women to sit at the table.

We need to strike better trade deals, but we need to do it in a way that ensures that we are at the table on these deals.

We should have imposed new sanctions in 2013 and maintained the strength of our negotiating position, which is what brought Iran to the table in the first place.

Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups.

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

At the dinner table every night we pray together.

Where Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table.

Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.