Kitchen Table Quotes

• Everybody is a story. When I was a child, people sat around kitchen tables and told their stories. We don't do that so much anymore. Sitting around the table telling stories is not just a way of passing time. It is the way the wisdom gets passed along. The stuff that helps us to live a life worth remembering.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Children, People, Community

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Witty, Sex

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• I hate homework. I hate it more now than I did when I was the one lugging textbooks and binders back and forth from school. The hour my children are seated at the kitchen table, their books spread out before them, the crumbs of their after-school snack littering the table, is without a doubt the worst hour of my day.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Hate, Book

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• Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Simple, Kitchen, Tables

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• You know, you really can't beat a household commodity - the ketchup bottle on the kitchen table.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Kitchen, Bottles, Tables

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• The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Love, Inspirational, Powerful

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.112, Penguin

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• I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

  Celine Dion

  Years, Kitchen, Tables

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• I hope we can get back to what I call the kitchen table. Everyday issues that people are really worried about and focused on.

  Dick Gephardt

  Issues, People, Kitchen

  Twitter post from Oct 05, 2016

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• I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

  Mark Oliphant

  Hair, White, Kitchen

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• If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

  Barry McCaffrey

  Children, War, Fighting

  "A Mission Gone Wrong" by Mattathias Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. January 06, 2014.

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• My grandfather was a chef for a Baron in Sicily before he came to America. I grew up with him. I used to do my homework at one end of the kitchen table while he cooked at the other end.

  Vincent Schiavelli

  America, Kitchen, Grandfather

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• I've just always loved singing, and I come from a family that loves singing around the kitchen table.

  Jane Lynch

  Kitchen, Singing, Tables

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• I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

  Annie Baker

  Mother, Kitchen, Sitting

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• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dog, Drinking, Feet

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• Back in the 40s and early 50s, building simple electronic projects was a popular hobby of many people. Back then, you could buy, you know, a few parts and - with tubes and build something on your kitchen table, and it would actually work.

  Robert Moog

  Simple, People, Kitchen

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• Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Positive, Meaningful, Way

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• The reason I am still sitting at Josef's kitchen table is the same reason traffic slows after a car wreck- you want to see the damage; you can't let yourself pass without that mental snapshot. We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Car, Kitchen, Sitting

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• My songs examine and explore little specific emotions or situations or stories... They're kitchen table songs, like a conversation between me and one other person. It's almost like an alien has been sent to get emotional samples from human beings and put it all together on a record.

  KT Tunstall

  Song, Emotional, Kitchen

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• If your kitchen table is like mine, you sit there at night before you put the kids to bed and you talk about what you need. You talk about how much you are worried about being able to pay the bills. Ladies and gentlemen, that is not a worry John McCain has to worry about. It's a pretty hard experience. He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at.

  Joe Biden

  Kids, Night, Worry

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• I had the halfway house. I can't tell how many nights I spent around my kitchen table, soothing broken hearts.

  Kirstie Alley

  Heart, Night, Broken

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.

  William Maxwell

  Spring, Lying, Home

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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• We need to address the economic issues around the kitchen table, and if people want a more high-minded politics and want to move our country forward, go on to martinomalley.com and help my campaign move our country moves.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Moving, Issues

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

  Trevor Nisbett

  Lonely, Home, Kids

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• We need to tap into new issues. There's a way to resurrect the sound policies of our party, but also to look toward new issues - kitchen-table issues like the rising cost of education. I think that's a winning issue for Republicans.

  Andrea Tantaros

  Party, Winning, Thinking

  Source: themoderatevoice.com

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• Writing relies on very few things, my friend. All you need to write is your brain, a way to convey the story into existence (pen, computer, whatever), and a place in which to do it (office, kitchen table, lunar brothel).

  Chuck Wendig

  Writing, Office, Kitchen

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