“I had this extraordinarily bizarre moment when, two Fridays ago, my missus gave birth to our second child at 11am and by the same time the following day I was sitting around a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in Rabat in Morocco, rehearsing a scene we were going to shoot the next day.” ChildrenTwoMomentsNextBirthSceneSittingTablesFollowingNext DayBizarreFridaySitting AroundLeonardoRehearsingMoroccoSitting Around A Table Author:Mark Strong
“I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.” MotherNextBornPoorDoorsBirthTablesKitchenKitchen Table Author:Mel Brooks
“An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.” MindLooksStatesShowsLastsJusticeSeriousBirthRegardTablesCourtMeetingsCloudsEnvyGravesDistinctionGamblingMelancholyAlliancesAssemblyAgitateSolicitudeRancor Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“Harriet Beecher Stowe was thirty-nine when she began Uncle Tom's Cabin. She had given birth to seven children and seen one die. She wrote her book to be serialized in an abolitionist newspaper. Much of it she composed on the kitchen table in between the cooking, mending, tending to her house.” ChildrenBookDiesHouseGivenBirthTablesCookingSevenNewspapersNineThirtyKitchenTomsUnclesCabinsAbolitionistKitchen TableMendingUncle Tom Author:Sophy Burnham
“You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” Would BeOrderNumbersMankindBirthTablesStriveFavorsBreadGuestsArtificialIrrationalDiminishBanquets Book:Christian Values and Virtues Source: Christian Values and Virtues
“When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.” GivingHeartChildrenDoneWantedMotherFallJesusLostLeftHurtFiveBirthMy HeartTwentiesTablesArguingDesertKneesKitchenFourthHurt MePistols Book:Jesus' Son: Stories Source: Jesus' Son: Stories
“For you deal here above all with human life, and human life is sacred; no one may dare make an attempt upon it. Respect for life, even with regard to the great problem of the birth rate, must find here in your Assembly its highest affirmation and its most rational defense. Your task is to ensure that there is enough bread on the tables of mankind, and not to encourage an artificial control of births, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.” HumansMayEnoughProblemWould BeLife IsOrderDealsNumbersMankindBirthHighestTasksRegardTablesSacredRateDareDefenseBreadRationalHuman LifeAbortionGuestsArtificialIrrationalAffirmationDiminishAssemblyBanquetsBirth Rate Author:Pope Paul VI