Dinner Table Quotes

• All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

  Ronald Reagan

  Change, America, Presidential

  Farewell Address to the Nation, delivered 11 January 1989, Washington D.C.

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• The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

  Don DeLillo

  Family, Art, Expression

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.685, Pan Macmillan

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

  Michael J. Fox

  Ensemble, Tables, Dinner

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• Cooking is a caring and nurturing act. It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.

  Curtis Stone

  Love, Beautiful, Appreciation

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• The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Political, World

  1893 Lord Illingworth. A Woman of No Importance, act 3.

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• The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

  Judith Martin

  Food, Teaching, Accomplishment

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, Thanksgiving, Food

  1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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• Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Family, Eyeglasses, Important

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• I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.

  Hilary Swank

  Past, Talking, Years

  "Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac Efron, Hilary Swank, Josh Duhamel and Lea Michele NEW YEAR'S EVE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 6, 2011.

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• Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

  Richard Whately

  Food, Tables, Dinner

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• I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table.

  Julia Roberts

  Tables, Dinner, My Family

  "The challenge of being Julia Roberts: Movie star on her career and 'nourishing' home life". Interview with John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. January 24, 2014.

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• Every lesson I learned as a kid was at the dinner table. Being Greek, Sicilian and Ruthenian - we are an emotional bunch. It is where we laughed, cried and yelled - but most importantly, where we bonded and connected.

  Michael Symon

  Kids, Emotional, Greek

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• Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

  Rue McClanahan

  Compassion, Foundation, Tables

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every night, same players. Good ensemble; the people have worked together a lot.

  Michael J. Fox

  Player, Night, People

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• The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Different, Tables, Dinner

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• I want to wake up with you beside me in the mornings. I want to spend my evenings looking at you across the dinner table. I want to share every mundane detail of my day with you and hear every detail of yours. I want to laugh with you and fall asleep with you in my arms.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Morning, Fall, Laughing

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Best Of Me”, p.131, Hachette UK

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• 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

  World, Thailand, Tables

  "Thailand Tuna Plant Workers Win 'Unprecedented' Settlement". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, www.npr.org. March 5, 2016.

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• Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

  Diana Vreeland

  Tables, Dinner, Poor

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

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Mean, Tables

  Adrienne Rich (2016). “Collected Poems: 1950-2012”, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

  Angela Carter

  Sleep, Bed, Tables

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

  A.C. Grayling

  Philosophy, Guests, Tables

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• I guess what really forms you as a person is what you do within your family to receive love or attention. In my family, what you had to do to receive attention was to have good conversation at the dinner table or for me to do well at school, and those were really my focuses because that was what was valued the most.

  Emma Watson

  School, Attention, Tables

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• 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

  Civilization, Television, Tables

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• 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

  Angel, Shoes, Toes

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• Everything on our dinner table-the meat, cheese, salad, bread, and soft drink-requires carbon dioxide to be there. For those of you who believe that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, we have a special diet: water and salt!

  Joanne Nova

  Believe, Water, Special

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