A Quote by Renee Fleming

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

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Renee Fleming
American - Musician
Born: February 14, 1957

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that dinner table was the one time when we were all together, every day: parents, grandparents, children, siblings. Rudeness between siblings, or a failure to observe the etiquette of passing dishes to one another, accompanied by "please" and "thank you," was the training ground of behavior, the place where manners began.

Larry McMurtry

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

Emmeline Pankhurst

My mom was probably the biggest influence. She cooked dinner every night. We sat around the table every night. It was a very traditional family.

Haylie Duff

I received most of my business education around the dinner table. Whether I listened to my father or brothers, or we had business people as dinner guests, I learned from everyone.

Dylan Lauren

At the dinner table every night we pray together.

Kate Gosselin

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

Al Franken

Bill Monroe is not singing about life in America. He's singing about life in Kentucky and Tennessee. And yet it's had this tremendous impact, not just in America but in the world. Why is Bill Monroe's hyper-regional music so universal? We can be so different and yet still share a tremendous amount.

Chris Thile

I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table...

Emmy Rossum

I had the good fortune to spend hours with my parents around the dinner table having debates on politics and economics.

Dambisa Moyo

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.

Bo Sanchez

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

Trisha Yearwood

My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.

Bo Sanchez

My parents are nice people, and they also made a point to have dinner as a family every night.

David Einhorn

There should be no rules at your dinner party except for people to eat a lot and enjoy a long night where they feel like they could fall asleep at the dinner table at the end.

Antoni Porowski

I have my Master's Degree but I learned more at my dinner table than any class I ever took. My dad would come home from the sweat factory and put the money on the table and say Mea, here is some money for insurance and food and we always had that little extra for Friday night pizza at Barcelona's.