Hospitable Quotes

40 quotes by 37 authors

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. — Mark Twain
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith
Atoms are weird stuff, behaving like active agents rather than inert substances. They make unpredictable choices between alternative possibilities according to the laws of quantum… — Freeman Dyson
To withdraw from creatures and repose with Jesus in the Tabernacle is my delight; there I can hide myself and seek rest. There I find… — Ignatius Loyola
We have arrived at a moment of decision. Our home-Earth-is in danger. What is at risk of being destroyed is not the planet itself, of… — Al Gore
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter… — Alexander Cockburn
For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. — Luther Standing Bear
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars — Clifford Geertz
The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. — Max Beerbohm
It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have… — Lottie Moon
May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest. — John Henry Jowett
A genial hearth, a hospitable board, and a refined rusticity. — William Wordsworth
Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space, — Krista Tippett
New York seemed as young as I was and infinitely hospitable. — Diane von Furstenberg
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible for men and… — Henri Nouwen
At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce, if fish were… — Harvey V. Fineberg
Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,… — Desmond Tutu
We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed… — Neil Gaiman

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