#supper

I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?" Will shook his head. "Supper is important! ↗

— John Flanagan

#halt #supper #funny

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb... ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #kingdom #marriage-supper #mozart #mustard-seed

Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember. ↗

— Louise Brown

#bath #bedtime #been #best #children

I think that at the supper I neither receive flesh nor blood, but bread and wine; which bread when it is broken, and the wine when it is drunken, put me in remembrance how that for my sins the body of Christ was broken, and his blood shed on the cross. ↗

— Jane Grey

#body #bread #broken #christ #cross

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#best #digestive #exciting #literature #supper

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#boyfriend #cheating #could #existing #going

Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#kills #lunch #other #paris #supper

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth. ↗

— Len G. Murray

#before #burns #day #days #each

You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him. ↗

— James Earl Jones

#being #church #disturbing #him #idea

I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper. ↗

— Eric Taylor

#habit #i #i am #supper #taking