Top 1200 Thanksgiving Dinner Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

Explain to me why it is more noble to kill ten thousand men in battle than a dozen at dinner.

I was a waitress. I was pretty good at it. I liked to solve those puzzles-you know, when to put the dinner order in, that sort of thing.

I was at a White House Correspondents' Dinner, and I met Bobby Jindal, and we had a perfectly lovely twenty minute conversation.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.

I don't have regrets. I've never sat here and thought, 'Gee, if only I'd done 'The Man Who Came to Dinner' on Broadway, I would have been happier.'

One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

One of my favorite things being on movies is that when you're working, it's the best thing that's ever happened, and then in the downtime, you socialize and go to dinner.

All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.

A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.

I can only cook brown rice and vegetables, so I don't get too many people coming over for dinner parties or anything.

I don't care what other people think. I hate conforming, that you have to wear this to a business meeting or that to a dinner. I've never worked that way.

I'd gone very quickly from playing in a park with my mates to sitting next to Wayne Rooney at dinner. It was a bit weird.

My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.

For me, candlelit is the only way to have a dinner. There are always candles at my table. And I like to have Luis Miguel playing in the background.

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner!

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.

I'm not shy. I'm quiet. With my close friends. I talk a lot. But if I'm at a big dinner, I'm not gonna walk in and go introduce myself to everybody.

My childhood was completely dominated by Bill Clinton and the OJ trial. I don't think we had a family dinner where one didn't come up.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

Two women at a resort discussed dinner: "The food here is lousy," the first noted. "You're right! And such small portions!!" the second added

My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the water catching my dinner.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

I'm constantly feeding my metabolism. But at the same time if I want to go one night and have a nice dinner then I won't sweat it the next day.

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.

I loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.

I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.

We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told.

When in Boston, I shall be able to take you out to dinner, if not to bed. I should greatly prefer the latter, but I must accept my lot.

John Travolta, who said, My Saturday night fever was nothing compared to my Sunday morning rash. Never got a dinner!

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

I still get nervous on dates. I'll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can't breathe.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

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

If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.

Every night at 6:30, my entire family sits down for dinner together. It's definitely the best part of my day.

What better way to celebrate 50 years of defending human rights than over a candlelit dinner with friends and family.

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well.

Any other woman who has to go to work and pick up the kids and make dinner - that's way harder than what I have to do.

My girlfriend and I went to a dinner party the other night and we ended up playing charades. There was another couple there that was deaf. They were so good.

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

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night.

I go to dinner with my friends, and we're like, 'Let's put our phones on airplane mode so we can really enjoy each other's company.'

If I have friends in town visiting, we'll go get dinner, but if I'm just by myself, I'm at the house, watching random TV shows.

When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day.