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Family Dinner Quotes

Check some of these dinner quotes when you enjoy your dinner with your family.

• "We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

• "I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together." - Gwyneth Paltrow

• "All great change in America begins at the dinner table." - Ronald Reagan

• "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." - W. T. Purkiser

• "Taking time for each other is the key for harmony in the home (and in marriage.)" - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

• "Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody." - Samuel Pepys

• "When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together." - Samuel Alito

• "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

• "Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters." - M. F. K. Fisher

• "or the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family-centered way of life." - Larry McMurtry

• "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." - Drew Barrymore

• "Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth." - Diane Ackerman

• "Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives." - Bruce Feiler

• "We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check-in, just to be around each other." - Mark Consuelos

• "Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacket required." - Alyson Noel

• "My mom is a great cook, and family dinners were a must growing up, even if that meant eating at 10 p.m. when my dad got home from the hospital. It's where we did our family bonding." - Daphne Oz

• "My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition." - William Shatner

• "Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe." - Henry Anatole Grunwald

• "I like to hike and play with my dogs and spend time with my family. We go out to family dinners a lot." - Gabby Douglas

• "I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows." - Mika Brzezinski

• "If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those weeks in the spring of 1997 were when I came into myself as a writer. They feel like some of the best weeks of writing I’ll ever have. The discovery that I could write better about something as trivial as an ordinary family dinner than I could about the exploding prison population of the United States, and the corporatization of American life, and all the other things I’d been trying to do, was a real revelation." - Jonathan Franzen

• "Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years." - Diane Ackerman

• "When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace." - Elizabeth Gilbert

Dinner Party Quotes

Before making a great dinner party, you should read these dinner quotes to know more about a dinner party.

• "I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to." - Elizabeth Gilbert

• "I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start." - Ina Garten

• "At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other." - Ann Landers

• "At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." - W. Somerset Maugham

• "That which chiefly causes the failure of a dinner-party, is the running short--not of meat, nor yet of drink, but of conversation." - Lewis Carroll

• "The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a damn good head waiter." - Nubar Gulbenkian

• "A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely." - W. Somerset Maugham

• "The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties." - Carol Grace

• "I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know." - Marian Keyes

• "If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up." - Dr. Seuss

• "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics." - H. L. Mencken

• "I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk." - Barbara Walters

• "A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. It cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - Mao Zedong

• "Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle." - Judy Chicago

• "I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world." - Paul F. Tompkins

• "The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums." - Anthony Trollope

• "The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral." - Simon Hoggart

• "The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal." - H. L. Mencken

• "If we can put a man on the moon, we can make pantyhose comfortable." - Sara Blakely

• "If people would only look to the cookie, all our problems would be solved." - Jerry Seinfeld

• "It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties." - Oscar Wilde

• "I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the oven and cook for me." - Lucy Punch

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

• "Misery loves company which is ironic because it rarely throws dinner parties." - Dov Davidoff

Dinner With Friends Quotes

Funny things always happened when you invited your friends to come over dinner. These dinner quotes will show you.

• "Food, Friend, Sunshine." - Unknown

• "Thankful, Grateful, Blessed." - Unknown

• "Good Friends, Good Food, Good Times." - Unknown

• "First we eat then we do everything else." - Unknown

• "Friends are like sprinkles on the donut." - Unknown

• "Coffee and Friends make the perfect blend." - Unknown

• "My House, My Rules, My Menu, My Friends." - Unknown

• "You are my cup of tea after dinner." - Unknown

• "Best friend is, who invites you on the dinner" - Unknown

• "Clean your plate or I will do it for you." - Unknown

• "I unwind by having dinner with best friends." - Unknown

• "A Big Dinner with Best Friends. That's what I want." - Unknown

• "Friends buy you dinner. Best friends eat it." - Unknown

• "Best gathering place: Dinner Table with Friends." - Unknown

• "If you close your eyes and your food is gone. Never blame me." - Unknown

• "My friends are magicians of food disappearance." - Unknown

• "Friends are enemies at the dinner table." - Unknown

• "Happiness is... a spontaneous dinner with a dear friend." - Unknown

• "Keep calm and BBQ on." - Unknown

• "With friends, Dinner is best." - Unknown

• "Friends are those who don't shy on the table." - Unknown

• "The Secret Ingredient of Happiness is Dinner with Friends." - Unknown

• "Good friends are like Bees, They come to your house even if you don't invite them for dinner." - Unknown

• "Believe it or not, My friends look like warriors when they reach for dinner together." - Unknown

• "Shake the hands and invite me." - Unknown

• "There is nothing better than a friend unless that friend invited me on the dinner." - Unknown

• "I swear I will not reject your dinner invitation." - Unknown

• "I hate those friends who eat fast than me on the table." - Unknown

• "If you don't invite me to the dinner, I will come to your home to get it." - Unknown

Funny Dinner Quotes

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Merrier your dinner time with these funny dinner quotes.

• "After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives." - Oscar Wilde

• "If you combine wine and dinner, the new word is winner." - Unknown

• "My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." - Orson Welles

• "At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom." - George Carlin

• “Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music, and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.”- Henry Youngman

• "Tonight's dinner choices: "Take it or leave it." - Unknown

• "Let's be wicked and have snacks for dinner." - Unknown

• "My favorite thing to make for dinner is reservations." - Unknown

• "Happiness is dessert before dinner." - Unknown

• "Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table." - Santosh Kalwar

• "Why be thinner when you can have more dinner?" - Unknown

• "We are best friends forever, except at dinner table." - Unknown

• "You know you’ve had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize… there is no beanbag." - David Letterman

• "There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down." - Madeleine L'Engle

• "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." - Adelle Davis

• "Who knew the hardest part of being an adult is figuring out what to cook for dinner every single night for the rest of your life." - Unknown

• There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work upon an appetite for his dinner." - Unknown

So, these are all dinner quotes that are perfect for your dinner moment with the people you love. Make those moments memorable with these beautiful quotes on your posts or stories on your social media.