Top 1200 Table Manners Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.

I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table.

Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their 'white' culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work.

Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

Simpler manners, purer lives; more self-denial; more earnest sympathy with the classes that lie below us, nothing short of that can lay the foundations of the Christianity which is to be hereafter, deep and broad.

Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

All women bring something different to the table and we have to appreciate them all.

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

I always find that what's unique to my clinics is the credentials I bring to the table

I sat at the popular table, but I always felt really geeky.

We gave up everything just to sit at your table.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

If you DON'T have diversity around your boardroom table, then what is wrong with you?

-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised?

I invited myself. Thought this table needed some class.

Once while sliding under a table, I hurt my knee badly.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

In dreams we are true poets; we create the persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures faces, costumes; they are perfect in their organs, attitudes, manners; moreover they speak after their own characters, not ours; and we listen with surprise to what they say.

James Salter is a consummate storyteller. His manners are precise and elegant; he has a splendid New York accent; he runs his hands through his gray hair and laughs boyishly.

I was brought up in a way that when you're at a dinner party, you don't grab a chip unless it's been offered to everyone else. It's the manners of being brought up by English parents.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'

India-Pakistan match brings a lot of excitement to the table.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

It's hard to say, 'I demand a seat at a table for best picture.'

I would never take any of my cards off the table.

If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.

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

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

The exceptionalism of a black U.S. President is not important to me. It's what he does - and who he has at the table.

Television is a big roulette table on so many levels. That's all it is for actors.

Find someone who disagrees and invite them to your table.

I know Mayweather now, his style, what he brings to the table.

I'm going to get paid what I deserve off of what I bring to the table.

Casual dehumanization of people was commonplace at the Trump dinner table.

Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious, fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.

I think Twitter has brought something totally new to the table.

I'm not going to use nukes, but I'm not taking cards off the table.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

So long as you minded your manners and kept your weapons concealed, they let you enter and leave in peace. Those who broke the one house rule of “No Spill Blood” quickly found themselves leaving in pieces.’ (Gallagher)

Take the military option off the table - we have already seen it doesn't work.

I like being straightforward. We can deal with anything as long as it's on the table.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.

The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated.

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes.

The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.