The Dinner Table Quotes: top 50 famous quotes about The Dinner Table

The Dinner Table Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Dinner Table quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead. — Mira Grant

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though. — Vanessa Kerry

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table. — Dolly Parton

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table. — Seth Gordon

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table. — Diana Vreeland

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead. — Phyllis Diller

Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. — Adrienne Rich

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table. — Janet Flanner

I think no matter what the occasion may be, you can never go wrong by showing up at the dinner table with a hot plate of fried chicken. — Paula Deen

Be nice to his family. Pretend not to notice the way their house smells. Pretend to like their food. Mimic their barbaric customs at the dinner table. — Laura Yes Yes

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education. — Renee Fleming

People should have fun with wine. A bottle should sit on your dinner table like all of the other condiments. — Andre Hueston Mack

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table. — Bo Sanchez

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing. — Jim Carrey

My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. — Claire Danes

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. — Angela Carter

Other dads actually sat at the dinner table. Mine left me a fifty and a reminder to do my goddamn katas. — Lilith Saintcrow

My wife runs the charity Reprieve, and so rendition, droning, and capital punishment are very much the topics of our dinner table because of that. — Nick Harkaway

All great change in America begins at the dinner table. — Ronald Reagan

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business. — Jared Kushner

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress. — Gelett Burgess

I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film. — John Orloff

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. — Marilyn Vos Savant

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics. — Columba Bush

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny. — Lorrie Moore

Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. — Bob Ehrlich

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read. — Nicole Krauss

Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life. — A.C. Grayling

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down. — Madeleine L'Engle

How nice would that be today if when a job was lost, a Man of God sat at the dinner table and encouraged you? — Mitch Albom

As we saw in chapter 3, one way the early modern Europeans used Odyssean self-control was to keep sharp knives out of reach at the dinner table. — Steven Pinker

Right now it's just me and my impatience having a silent war at the dinner table. — Colleen Hoover

Star salt (the stars' reflection in a river) Sun cradle (the sea) Lemon kiss (everyone knew exactly what this meant!) Family anchor (the dinner table) — Nina George

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else. — Isla Fisher

I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food. — Michael Pollan

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. — Iggy Azalea

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. — Isabel Gillies

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin. — Mason Cooley

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics. — Dambisa Moyo

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. — Don DeLillo

If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh. — Tom Douglas

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument. — Richard Whately

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula. — Nora Roberts

I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. — Julia Roberts

Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table. — Gail Carriger

Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table. — Dalai Lama

Author describes one monarch's impressive table but conveys a contemporary's observation, "the weightiest thing at dinner was the conversation". — Peter Heather

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner. — Christopher Morley

I can clear a dinner table in less than 60 seconds, moaning like a dockyard Elijah about the deficit and the inevitable reckoning. — Christopher Buckley

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. — Oscar Wilde