We barely had lights, but my mom always made sure we had food on the table and somewhere to sleep.
Scream at the mangled leather carcass lying at the foot of the stairs, and my parents would roar with laughter. "That's what you get for leaving your wallet on the kitchen table.
My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.
But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.
Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.
We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win those who hate us.
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.
The first time I saw J.K. Rowling, I was sitting across from her at the 'Fantastic Beasts' table read, and I was just amazed by how wonderful she is in person.
Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
We need less memorization - I never memorized the periodic table of the elements - I've never used it, and I'm a physicist! I can look it up.
I don't want to be on the other side of the table from the customer. I was never selling anything that I didn't believe in myself or use myself.
New York is like a big dinner party. You have to be very careful about what you say and do because you never know whose feet are touching under the table.
We have a president [Barack Obama] that can't sit them [companies] around a table and get them to approve something.
The quarterback position is a role of leadership, and I feel just who I am as a person, I bring different types of leadership to the table.
The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and work with them as I'm searching for an idea that works.
I do read newspapers constantly and my 'Jesus Calling' devotional on my way to work each day. In addition, my Bible is on my bedside table and my 'go to' for advice and direction.
The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.
I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
If I just track Shang-Chi's journey in the context of table tennis in my life, it actually fits perfectly, and that's why I was able to sink into the character so, so seamlessly.
For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave; in bed, beauty before goodness.
There are lots and lots of good actors out there, and often it's just luck if what you bring to the table syncs with the director's vision.
No house was so poor as not to have its 'family altar,' its shelf of wooden gods, and table of offerings. A religious atmosphere pervades Tibet and gives it a singular sense of novelty.
I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.
-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.
Governors sometimes have a hard time jumping up on a table and yelling the loudest because they've actually been there. They realize it's difficult to govern in a split environment.
Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.
Dinner at college high table is one of the legendary experiences of England. I could remember keenly each one I had attended; the repartee is sharper than the cutlery.
to grow old is to have taken away, one by one, all gifts of life, the food and wine, the music and the company. ... the gods unloose, one by one, the mortal fingers that cling to the edge of the table.
Community means that people come together around the table, not just to feed their bodies, but to feed their minds and their relationships.
But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.
I agree with the president [Barack Obama]. I've said myself, we will not send American combat troops back to either Syria or Iraq - that is off the table.
My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
Ever since I was younger, I would make table reads at home where I would give fake interviews.
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
When you do something that's going to speak to people, it's going to be because you're really allowing all of yourself to the table in an accepting way.
What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.
Except in expert hands, stats can get in the way of story; an array of data that might better be presented in a table instead clogs up sentences.
She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
At Newcastle, I had a team at the bottom of the table with a crowd that was very angry at what had gone on at the club for a period of time.
Obviously, you want to win a trophy and finish as high up the table as possible. But it's important to focus game-by-game.
Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding.
I've always been a collaborator. For me, it's, 'What's the issue I'm trying to solve? Who are the people we need to bring around the table to solve it?'
To me, directing movies is just that. It's a need to question myself and set the things that disturb me on the table.
I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still.
There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.
The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.
After they were both done, the pile of knives and guns on the coffee table looked like they’d cleaned out an armory. “I think we have a problem, Dmitri.
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
For 't is always fair weather When good fellows get together With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.
The late, great Janis Joplin could drink ten men under the table, then sing loud enough to shake the teeth out of their head.
No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity.
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