Dinner Quotes

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

~ Robert Hellenga

I did not wait to hear the end of my father's story, for I had been with him myself after mass when we had met M. Legrandin; instead, I went downstairs to the kitchen to ask about the menu for our dinner, which was of fresh interest to me daily, like the news in a paper, and excited me as might the programme of a coming festivity.

~ Marcel Proust

One consequential change is that people used to get most of their calories at breakfast and midday, with only the evening top-up at suppertime. Now those intakes are almost exactly reversed. Most of us consume the bulk--a sadly appropriate word here--of our calories in the evening and take them to bed with us, a practice that doesn't do any good at all.

~ Bill Bryson

What am I doing here?” she demanded, bewildered.“You’re having dinner,” her little brother said.“Stop it! I’m not hungry. Stop it!”John held the spoon in front of her. His cherubic face was dark with anger. “You said you wouldn’t leave me.”“What are you talking about?” Mary demanded.“You said you wouldn’t do it. You wouldn’t leave me alone,” John said. “But you tried, didn’t you?”“I don’t know what you’re babbling about.” She noticed Astrid then, leaning against a filing cabinet. Astrid looked like she’d been dragged through the middle of a dog fight. Little Pete was sitting cross-legged, rocking back and forth. He was chanting, “Good-bye, Nestor. Good-bye, Nestor.”“Mary, you have an eating disorder,” Astrid said. “The secret is out. So cut the crap.”“Eat,” John ordered, and shoved a spoonful of food in her mouth. None too gently.“Swallow,” John ordered.“Let me—”“Shut up, Mary.

~ Michael Grant

Dinner was served on mismatched plates with paper napkins and silverware that looked like it had been stolen from a school cafeteria. The spaghetti was from a box that was still poking out of the garbage pail, the sauce from a jar that was sitting beside the sink. I got the definite impression that he chose to make dinner because he couldn't afford to take me out.

~ Arlene Schindler

Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech

~ Colley Cibber

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but expect dinner to turn up within the hour.

~ Terry Pratchett

The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.

~ Ken Poirot

Your body is a Temple. You are what you eat. Do not eat processed food, junk foods, filth, or disease carrying food, animals, or rodents. Some people say of these foods, 'well, it tastes good'.Most of the foods today that statically cause sickness, cancer, and disease ALL TATSE GOOD; it's well seasoned and prepared poison. THIS IS WHY SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SICK; mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually; because of being hooked to the 'taste' of poison, instead of being hooked on the truth and to real foods that heal and provide you with good health and wellness.Respect and honor your Temple- and it will honor you.

~ Supanova Slom

She complains that I'm lazy, but I just like to save my energy for dinner.

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

I’d rather put up a fucking good fight than provide him with dinner.

~ Isabelle Rowan

You want to go out to dinner sometime?Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry, infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.

~ Warren Ellis

However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.

~ J.g. Ballard

Face your true self. You're reaction when facing any animal is much more likely to be Ahh, cute than Yum, dinner!

~ Mango Wodzak

She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.

~ Lawren Leo

You can’t forget how important coming together is, whether it be a mom and a son, a dad and a daughter, whether the family be ten people, or twenty people, or a million people. Dinnertime is the perfect time for that. Dinnertime is the perfect time when you can sit down, you can offer thanks to your kids for making you laugh, or to your parents for supporting you, or to a god for looking out for you, or to whomever you want. You can just close your eyes and open them again and realize that you have the opportunity everyday to change your life, or change someone else’s. Dinnertime is a great time to think about that. ~ Dillon, age 22 From Dinnertimes: Stories of American Life, 1912 to 2012

~ Deborah L. Halliday

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

~ Madeleine L'engle

Some men laugh easily. It makes them winning dinner companions.

~ Joe Abercrombie

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

~ Adam Smith

I like to wear dresses and skirts when I go onstage because the attitude that I have is, 'I'm so excited to introduce myself to you.' And I want to be wearing what I'd be wearing to a date or a dinner party.

~ Jenny Slate

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

~ Moby

Should kids check phones at dinner? I don't know. To me, that's a parenting choice.

~ Sundar Pichai

I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat. There's something about earning your dinner that's cool.

~ Roseanne Barr

In the Lamborghini I have to avoid certain roads because of pot holes, and there's nowhere to put my drink, no cup holder. And I'm not going to lie, it looks pretentious. I used to think it was cool to, like, drive it to dinner. Now? Like I really need to be looked at any more.

~ Danica Patrick

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.

~ Deborah Harkness

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

~ Lee Krasner

When I was 11, I made truffle risotto for my family for Christmas dinner.

~ Gigi Hadid

In terms of the first Christmas when I met everybody, I went over to Nick's grandfather's house where they were having the big Christmas dinner, and they have this tradition of this thing called oyster stew.

~ Megan Mullally

I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing.

~ John Cleese

I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

~ Lesley Nicol

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

~ Peter Agre

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

~ Mallory Jansen

I don't go to premieres. I don't go to parties. I don't covet the Oscar. I don't want any of that. I don't go out. I just have dinner at home every night with my kids. Being famous, that's a whole other career. And I haven't got any energy for it.

~ Gary Oldman

When my mother had to get dinner for 8 she'd just make enough for 16 and only serve half.

~ Gracie Allen

At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.

~ George Carlin

I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.

~ Chrissy Teigen

I used to start at about 10 at night and work until early morning. My preferred way to work is to start in the early afternoon and work until about 3, go do errands, have dinner, and then write for a few more hours in the evening.

~ Mary Gaitskill

It's frightening to think about more sanctions. When I've met North Koreans in China, they've said to me, 'You have no idea how difficult our lives are. We live like dogs.' They wake up in the morning wondering what they're going to eat for dinner.

~ Barbara Demick

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

~ Bob Ehrlich

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

~ Julia Roberts