Christmas Dinner Quotes

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

Gigi Hadid

#2. You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize ... there is no beanbag.

David Letterman

#3. The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

Jim Butcher

#4. Christmas dinner? At Susan's?" I nodded. "We could call it a Kwanzaa dinner, if that would improve your mood.

Robert B. Parker

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

Peter Agre

#6. 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

#7. He invited me to his home for Christmas dinner and his little girl learned a few signs before I got there, and I taught her a few more."
I smiled, thinking of little Claudia.
"She asked me the sign for love and I spelled out your name.

Mia Sheridan

#8. As far as I'd seen, most adults tried to pretend they didn't have parents. Except my shrink, who'd tried to invite me for Christmas dinner last year. As if I wanted to be trapped next to a huge turkey carcass with twenty people I didn't know. Twenty strangers who all knew exactly who I was.

Meghan Ciana Doidge

#9. My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

Busy Philipps

#10. I've not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

Lesley Nicol

#11. On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

John Nettles

#12. It is not bad," he said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

Ernest Hemingway,

#13. 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

#14. My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.

Miranda Cosgrove

#15. Denial is an essential part of my existence. Without it, I am nothing.

Jason Krumbine

#16. There's the house where that little red-haired girl lives ... Maybe she'll see me, and come rushing out to thank me for the Christmas card I sent her ... Maybe she'll even give me a hug ... Maybe Billie Jean King will call me tonight, and invite me out to dinner.

Charles M. Schulz

#17. Does she say tough cookies?" "Well, no," I confess. "Nana swears like a sailor, actually. Last Christmas she dropped a motherfucker bomb at the dinner table, and my dad nearly choked on his turkey.

Elle Kennedy

#18. A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Henny Youngman

#19. This was a bad idea," I whispered.
"It was probably the smartest idea you've ever had."
I rubbed my palms on my hips.
"It's going to take a lot more
than Thanksgiving dinner and a Christmas tree to get laid."
"Damn. There goes my whole plan.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#20. My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

Howard Fast

#21. Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter's tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.

Michael Dirda

#22. Lincoln worked Christmas Eve, then went out for dinner with a bunch of the copy editors. There was a casino across the river with a twenty-four-hour buffet. "With crab legs tonight," Chuck said, "on account of Christ's birth.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. The South has a way of worshipping appearances - the suburbs are all about presentation and amazing flowers and a beautiful yard and dinner parties that impress people and having the Christmas lights just right.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

#24. Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

Jack Horner

#25. [I am] loyal, ambitious and clever.

Mike Holloway

#26. I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.

Christopher Moore