Dinner Table Quotes

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri

“I love food, I love everything about food – the growing, the purchasing, the cooking, the eating, the nourishment, the connection, the celebration. To me, food is so central to everything important in life – how we eat and how we feed others is such a strong reflection on who we are, our values, and how we live. And we get to express and enjoy this three times every single day!”
― Alyce Alexandra, Everyday Thermo Cooking: 100 Simple and Satisfying Real-Life Recipes from My Kitchen

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape without scandal, there is no turning aside without self-betrayal. To invite a person to dinner is to place them under observation. Every dining-room is a temporary prison where politeness chains the guests to the laden board.”
― Maurice Renard, Hands of Orlac

“I passionately believe home cooking has vast benefit to individuals, families, community, environment and animal welfare, but in today’s busy society it is often the first thing we outsource. While some may argue this makes economic sense, the cost and benefit of doing so cannot be measured in dollars alone.”
― Alyce Alexandra

“She bit her lip, forcing the truth deeper inside until it caved her. She hunched over like a woman protecting her illegitimate unborn child. She brandished forks and knives and set them on the table, each fork crossed over each knife like a coat of arms, a pattern of X's.”
― Angela Panayotopulos, The Wake Up

“Keeping "best" dinner sets for use only when you have guests comes with the assumption that unless it is a "special occasion", you do not deserve to eat off them. This is a subtle dig that goes right to the core of your self-esteem. Are you alone not deserving of the best?”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“The poor always dream of having the dinner table of the rich, whereas the only dinner table we need to have, whether we are rich or poor, is a healthy dinner table!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Dinner took place at an elaborate table encircling the phoenix tree. It was set with pewter goblets and honeycomb candles shaped like castles, and beside each plate were wooden figurines of tiny dragons all displaying names.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“A lot of people who behave well at the table do so only when a special guest is around.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Men might hunt on horses, but ladies shot game while sitting in chairs around the dining table.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“No matter how big a dinner table is, when someone uninvited comes to dinner, it suddenly becomes smaller! Where you are wanted, the space expands; where you are not wanted, the space shrinks! What makes these expand or shrink is being loved or not being loved!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan