Top 1200 Dinner Table Quotes & Sayings

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

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.

There was so much going on. I remember a very interesting dinner in the studio of [Robert] Rauschenberg. He had convinced Sidney Janis, Leo Castelli, and a third big gallery man to serve us, the artists, at the table. So they were dressed up as waiters, we were sitting at the table, and they were only allowed to sit down at the end of the table for the cognac. This is not possible now.

I took Kira to a nice dinner at a place called Moonshadows in Malibu, which is by the ocean, and I organized it so a school of young dolphins swam by our table. I took her for a long walk on the beach after dinner, and I told her all the things I love about her. Then I asked her to marry me.

We separated like oil and water. In the cafeteria, you'd see a table of black jocks, table of white jocks, table of rich white kids, table of Hispanic kids, table of Chinese kids, table of druggies, table of chatterboxes, and so on. Wait! There's a diverse table over there! With a few kids of different tenacities and economic status! Oh, that's the nerds. That's where I sat. We weren't cool enough for the other tables, so we didn't discriminate against anybody.

Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

This one fellow I met at the gym. I went out to dinner with him and he said, 'I've been watching you for a year and I never thought you'd go out with me!' Then he fainted at the dinner table. I didn't know what the hell to make of that.

I live in a world where I want everyone to be able to put beurre blanc on the table for dinner.

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

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

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.

I was raised before the advent of DVD players in cars and iPads at the dinner table.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

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

You know, I had a new kind of thought on Black Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter thing. And the best way to explain it is if we're all sitting around at a table having dinner, and everybody gets pie except for you and you say, my pie matters, I don't have pie, and everybody at the table looks at you and says, I know, all pie matters, it shows that the people at the table aren't really listening.

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

My mom and dad are great cooks. We ate meals at the dinner table, as a family.

Robocall scams not only inconvenience us at the dinner table, but they prey on the vulnerable, including seniors, and it's despicable.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to figure out what to say at the dinner table.

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

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.

Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.

When I first got on the internet as a tween, I wasn't comfortable showing up in social spaces. I didn't have a loud voice. As a function of my youth and gender, I wasn't given a voice at the dinner table, and nor maybe should I have been. But I thought I wanted one, and I was able to have it online. I wasn't a great talker, but I found these other skills. And when this stuff is described as "not real writing" or "bad for my brain" or whatever, it just seems like it's from people who wanted to keep their place at the dinner table.

You shouldn't have to win the boss lottery in order to have a little bit of flexibility at work. Raising and supporting a family isn't just a financial obligation. What's important isn't just being able to put food on the dinner table - we want you to be at the dinner table, too.

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

We don't have phones at the dinner table.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

At the dinner table when I was very little, I would hear people bickering... To escape the bickering, I started modelling the soft bread with my fingers. With the dough of the French bread %u2013 sometimes it was still warm %u2013 I would make little figures. And I would line them up on the table and this was really my first sculpture.

I learned marketing at my dinner table.

At the dinner table every night we pray together.

What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

Casual dehumanization of people was commonplace at the Trump dinner table.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

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

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

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

I'd like to cook for Stephen Fry. I can't think of a better dinner table companion.

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

In the amount of time it takes to microwave a TV dinner, you can put something much tastier on the table, I promise.

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

I've never been to a dinner party where everyone at the dinner table didn't say something funny.

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.

HEAVEN knows the difference between SUNDAY morning and WEDNESDAY afternoon. God longs to speak as CLEARLY in the workplace as He does in the sanctuary. He longs to be WORSHIPED when we sit at the dinner table and not just when we come to His communion table. You may go days without THINKING of Him, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of YOU.

When I look back on my childhood, my fondest memories are those surrounding the dinner table.

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

Italy is hard to beat. It's a family-friendly experience, they like to see kids in restaurants, and at dinner you see all the adults at the table and all the kids at the other end of the table. Maybe they run off and go play.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Faith is something we never discuss at the dinner table in my family, but I do believe in God.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

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

I love cooking and having friends over for dinner, so a beautiful table to sit around is a must.

If you grow up and your mother or father is a doctor you talk about medicine at the dinner table. In our case we talked about politics at the dinner table.

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.

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

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.