Family Dinners Quotes

#1. Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

M.F.K. Fisher

#2. In the tapestry of childhood, what stands out is not the splashy, blow-out trips to Disneyland but the common threads that run throughout and repeat: the family dinners, nature walks, reading together at bedtime, Saturday morning pancakes.

Kim John Payne

#3. There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening.

Rob Lowe

#4. We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

Denise Mina

#5. My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding.

Daphne Oz

#6. I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

Chrissy Teigen

#7. My grandma has fake teeth but her smile is real

Jason Myers

#8. Let us help each other; to be what we ought to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Daddy, look - one of the gnomes actually bit me!

J.K. Rowling

#10. You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

Shirley Maclaine

#11. Life is not meant to just zoom from the womb to the tomb. Slow down ... Enjoy the Journey! -RVM

R.v.m.

#12. Family we cannot always choose, but it sure is fun to try and make them laugh during dinners. Especially when they are trying to eat their soup.

Tom Althouse

#13. Remember always, you are the gift!

Neale Donald Walsch

#14. David Beckham is Britain's finest striker of a football not because of God-given talent but because he practices with a relentless application that the vast majority of less gifted players wouldn't contemplate.

Alex Ferguson

#15. Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

Argus Hamilton

#16. The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

Marc Benioff

#17. He wondered if this was what people were doing - were they making dinners with their family, holding babies, recounting days? Was this what life was like for them? Albie's

Ann Patchett

#18. I'm really close with Dave Coulier and his wife Melissa. My family and I go over there for barbeques, for dinners, Super Bowl parties.

Jodie Sweetin

#19. New Orleans was like that. A live-and-let-live attitude was ingrained into the fabric of the city; no one cared who you were or what you looked like - you had a place, and everyone respected that.

Laura Lane McNeal

#20. Donald Trump has fired a campaign adviser for posting racist remarks on Facebook. Isn't that shocking? Donald Trump has a campaign adviser.

Conan O'Brien

#21. William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

H.W. Brands

#22. I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

Sarah Dessen

#23. The more you trust and rely upon the Spirit, the greater your capacity to create.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#24. So: this is where we are going to become parents. You walk into the building as a couple, and leave a few minutes later as a family. You walk in recollecting long romantic dinners, nights at the theater, and care-free vacations. You leave worrying about where to get diapers, milk, and Cheerios.

Scott Simon