Quotes About Dinner Tables

#1. My brother Julio and I worked to improve the quality of wines from California and to put fine wine on American dinner tables at a price people could afford

Ernest Gallo

#2. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oscar Wilde

#3. I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

George Michael

#4. Secretary Clinton is tough, smart, and understands better than any candidate the challenges that parents are talking about around dinner tables and keeping families up at night.

Thomas Perez

#5. At conferences, black boys were assembled. At schools we were herded into auditoriums. At home, mothers summoned us to dinner tables, and there they delivered the news: Our time was short.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Best of stories are created at Airports, Dinner Tables and Showers!

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#7. Thailand's seafood industry is the third largest in the world. And much of it is ending up on our dinner tables.

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

#8. Public opinion should not be confused with popular sentiment. Popular sentiment is what people say to one another around their dinner tables. Popular opinion is what they say to callers from polling organizations.

Richard Brookhiser

#9. Buckwheat, like Marmite and durian, is a seriously divisive foodstuff, so it needs a seriously capable defence team if it's ever going to make it on to most people's dinner tables.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#10. Our country's political discourse and debate are enriched by discussions of the political implications of our faith traditions, whether they are taking place in our communities, at our dinner tables, or in our places of worship.

David Price

#11. How often had men sat around dinner tables and discussed women's lives, their choices, and the reasons why one woman reached across the bed to touch another woman?

Sherman Alexie

#12. That's what happens when you force someone to choose. Maybe they pick option A, maybe they pick option B, but most will go for a third option that isn't asking them to pick favorites in the first place.

Lish McBride

#13. Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs.

Lily Allen

#14. She tried to imagine what it would be like to die, but failed to reach any conclusion

Paulo Coelho

#15. Your problem, Kendra, is that you can easily imagine using magic. What you have to do now is imagine the magic itself.

Lee Edward Fodi

#16. Humanism is the philosophy that you should be a good guest at the dinner table of life.

A.C. Grayling

#17. The strongest reactionary force impeding progress is the cult of progress itself, which, cutting us off from our roots, makes growth impossible and choice unnecessary.

John Senior

#18. Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer. If anything, we have so much more to offer! We have lived life, we get better with age. I do my best work now in my 60s. Sure, I could retire; but what would I do? Play Bingo? I think not!

Dawn Wells

#19. Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

Adrienne Rich

#20. Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Gale Harold

#21. I've been really opinionated my whole life. I was raised to be opinionated. I was raised to debate at the dinner table - my father demanded it - and you had to be able to debate in a confident and clear way.

Jeanine Tesori

#22. Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

Fran Lebowitz

#23. With a book, there's no volume to turn up. You're very naked with a book.

Henry Rollins

#24. Angels cry because they want to experience what you and I feel: the moment. They live in eternity. They dont know what it is like to read a newspaper and get ink on your fingers. They dont know what it is like to take your shoes off and wiggle your toes under the dinner table.

Carlos Santana

#25. A successful dinner is one that lasts a while and one where everyone leaves happy. It's a meal where we didn't just wolf food down, rather something else happened at the table. That is the goal.

Laurie David

#26. You're only a success for the moment that you complete a successful act.

Phil Jackson

#27. The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Judith Martin

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#31. Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Arnold Bennett

#32. As Jogiches walked in with her past the potted plants in the entrance, to face the smiles and all the food laid out on little tables, he whispered: 'As soon as this dinner is over, I shall kill you...

John Peter Nettl

#33. I'm just saying, if you can't have an adventure where you are, what makes you think you'll have an adventure anywhere else?

Penny Reid

#34. In my mind, I'm probably the biggest sex maniac you ever saw.

J.D. Salinger

#35. I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

Phyllis Diller

#36. English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

Elspeth Huxley

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

Dolly Parton

#38. American society is still puritanical.

Nick Nolte

#39. Time itself is the solution to all problems.

P. V. Narasimha Rao

#40. MY TOUGHEST MATCH; is not on the mat. It's at the dinner table and it's at fast food restaurants. It's hearing about the party I can Never go to. It's realizing being a Great Wrestler isn't a sport, It's a LIFE.

Stephen Neal

#41. I grew up with a lot of dinner table conversations about health care and ways in which the system was inadequate for the needs of many of the patients they took care of.

Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey