Quotes About Mealtimes

#1. Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#2. The day is divided into two important sections: Mealtimes and everything else.

Merrill Markoe

#3. Algernon is a pleasant companion. At mealtimes, he takes his place at the small gateleg table. He likes pretzels, and today he took a sip of beer while we watched the ballgame on TV. I think he rooted for the Yankees.

Daniel Keyes

#4. My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating.

Lesley Manville

#5. The important thing about adventures, thought Mr. Bunnsy, was that they shouldn't be so long as to make you miss mealtimes.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.

John Robbins

#7. Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.

Maeve Binchy

#8. I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#9. I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that.

Neel Mukherjee

#10. When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

Taylor Swift

#11. The best meals are those prepared by loving hands.

Ken Poirot

#12. There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Arthur Balfour

#13. If I did not have a sense of humor, I would have long ago killed myself.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. Those men ate like food had just been invented

Raynetta Manees

#15. It was sprinting. The corpse was sprinting.

Austin Quinn

#16. Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.

Michael Curtis Ford

#17. We must retool our nation to prepare for the challenge we already face to maintain our position in the global economy. And this much is certain: America will not have national security without economic security.

John F. Kerry

#18. A grown person in Tahiti has an eating hour allotted to him twice a day, at 10 A.M. and 5 P.M.

Charles Warren Stoddard

#19. Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Billie Jean King

#20. Literature is integrated, and I'm not just talking about color or race. I'm talking about the power of literature to make us recognize - and again and again - the wholeness of the human experience.

Ralph Ellison

#21. Writing humour certainly involves pain. A sitcom is 6 months of writing pain!

Miranda Hart

#22. A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer.

Ice Cube

#23. Oh, could slavery exist long if it did not sit on a commercial throne?

Frances Harper