Quotes About Togetherness

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

This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

Growing up, we had 30, 40, 50 people coming through the house some Thanksgivings. Sometimes there was a kids' table; other times, the plate was just sitting on your lap. You get in where you fit in at that house.

I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look eye-to-eye. Phones are put away and there are no interruptions. And what you do is concentrate on each other. Listen to what they have to say, and let them listen to you.

We must absolutely take care of one another.

We have to take care of each other's children.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

In America, we take care of each other, we support one another, and we look out for our neighbors.

America is strongest when families take care of each other and walk with one another through need and loss.

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to take care of themselves.

Community isn't something I ever take for granted.

People told me all of the time, 'You could be such a big star if you just talked about yourself more,' but I'm not good at that. It's always been about team.

One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

I love being with my friends, relaxing and talking.

Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother.

My son and I ride a tandem bike. We turn the music on and just enjoy riding through our neighborhood.

The Magistrate and Empress stand arm in arm like the monster-movie American Gothic.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

I see people getting so caught up in celebrating diversity that they are neglecting their commonality.

This dream going on with all of us in it.

Love is not about rescue, I understand now - it's about allowing. In the Ojibway world, love is the process of you leading me back to who I am. You do that by stepping back and allowing the creative, nurturing energy of the universe to work. That's the most courageous thing you can do when you love somebody. Deb showed me that. Both of us knew we'd found communion with one another. We're loyal to the vision of our togetherness.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.