Laurie Colwin Quotes

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: Even the simplest food is a gift.

Laurie Colwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 14, 1944 - October 24, 1992

Topics

FoodCookingSafetyGiftGiving

I want to encourage all parents to read to their children because it helps them to become better educated, better informed.

Jesse White

ChildrenParentsBetterWantBecome

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Robert Hass

TimeJusticeJobPoetryThinkDead

America is the first great experiment in Protestant social formation. Protestantism in Europe always assumed and depended on the cultural habits that had been created by Catholic Christianity.

Stanley Hauerwas

GreatAmericaFirstAlwaysEurope

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring

TechnologyBecomeSocialMustDeeply

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Tracy McMillan

WorkLoveGoodWomenMenBad

The proper navy blue blazer can be single or double-breasted and looks best in a three-button style. The proper blazer requires side-vents. Italian versions can have no vent at all, but I find this a bit fast.

Roger Stone

StyleBestBlueFindFastLooks

I pretty much spend most of my time in the gym bulking up and staying fit and putting muscle on so I can play the part of Luke Cage, but I've never been a gym rat.

Mike Colter

TimeGymI CanPlayNeverMuscle

Google's real threat to China is not that it will leave the country. It's that it will embarrass China and damage its national reputation as a place to do business.

Jose Ferreira

BusinessReputationCountryPlace

It's a very powerful medium now, and should be celebrated as such, because we have the greatest television in the world.

Diana Rigg

WorldPowerfulTelevisionNowShould

I'm gullible. I think people mean what they say.

Colin Trevorrow

PeopleThinkSayMeanThey Say

The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.

Arthur Smith

TimeInfluenceBibleDoubtNo Doubt

There has not yet been a major ground offensive battle... There are, we know, negotiations going on between the opposition forces and the Taliban leadership for surrender.

Peter Pace

LeadershipBattleSurrenderKnow

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