"Back in the really olden days, dinner was……" — Nancy Gibbs
"Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down."
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104 Quotes by Nancy Gibbs
Nancy Gibbs has 104 quotes on this site.
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For the truly faithful, no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt, no miracle is sufficient.
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If Heaven is willing to sing to us, it is little to ask that we be ready to listen.
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us…
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Lyndon Johnson realized he really was President, that his identity had changed by President Kennedy's shocking death, when aides who…
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If the Presidents Club had a seal, around the ring would be three words: cooperation, competition, and consolation. On the…
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Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on…
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You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him…
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Nixon urged Clinton to maintain his relationship with Yeltsin but make contact with other democrats in Russia. He warned Clinton…
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Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and…
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Eisenhower advocated a variety of strong actions which he had never taken when he was president. Maybe this was just…
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More Ceremonial Quotes
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To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle…
— Philip Sidney
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
— H.G. Wells
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to…
— Camille Paglia
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Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read…
— George Gillespie
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his…
— Franz Boas
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he…
— Erving Goffman
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Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended…
— Jamake Highwater
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The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary…
— David Abram
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Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its…
— John Ramsay McCulloch
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People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first…
— Arundhati Roy
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Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial…
— Dominique de Menil
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Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all…
— J L Austin
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