Dinner Quotes

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

~ David Byrne

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

~ Liam Neeson

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

~ Curtis Stone

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

~ Wendi Mclendon-Covey

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

~ Diana Vreeland

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.

~ Helen Fisher

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

~ Richard Whately

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.

~ Samuel Pepys

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

~ Jack Nicholson

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

~ Harry Styles

Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

~ Debby Ryan

Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

~ Bear Bryant

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

~ Ronald Reagan

Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

I live in a Moomin house in East London which I fill with blankets and nice crockery and get people round for dinner. When you travel a lot, you feel rootless and adrift - this is my sanctuary, where I can breathe out.

~ Bat For Lashes

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

~ Jennifer Granholm

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

~ Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.

~ P. J. O'rourke

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

~ Ina Garten

I'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.

~ Leigh Lezark

I would watch 'The Ed Sullivan Show' and borrow a few lines here and there from guests like Red Buttons and Buddy Hackett to create a routine. Then I started getting invited to do political functions like the governor's birthday ball or mayor's dinner.

~ Norm Crosby

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

~ Matthew Sweet

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

~ Alfred Hitchcock

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.

~ Joshua Cohen

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

~ Nicole Richie

We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

~ Rodney Dangerfield

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Lorrie Moore

You don't realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there's no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don't think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.

~ Emma Roberts

I first heard about 'genes' when I was six years old. At dinner one night, I heard my mom tell my sister, 'It's in your genes.'

~ Anne Wojcicki

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family.

~ Haylie Duff

Choose wisely, then eat in moderation. When I know I'm going to Mom's for dinner, I throw an extra 20 minutes on the cardio machine so I can be ready to eat.

~ Danny Pino

I'm really critical of my posture, it makes a big difference. And I try to suck my belly in. Everyone should do that whether you're on a red carpet or not. Even if you're just going out to dinner with your boyfriend you should try and suck it in.

~ Katy Perry

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

~ Zac Efron