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Quotes About Dinner

Same old, same old. Beau and Eden came in last night with Aunt Trudy. Sheriff stopped by the table to flirt for a while. That's always entertaining.
~ Denise Hunter
We've got eggs and stuff. I could make an omelet. I skipped dinner too." "You cook?" "Cowboys have many hidden talents." Omelets were the only thing he cooked, but she didn't have to know that.
~ Denise Hunter
I think you have my bag," Amber said... "So what are you gonna do? Turn me in?" ... "No, not really." "Then do you want to buy me dinner?" - Clarissa
~ Derek Landy
Cooking dinner is a sacred gateway from work to rest, from seven separate lives to one shared table.
~ Jen Hatmaker
There are no Kids at the club at this in-between time, even the ones coming back for dinner are home changing clothes, which means there's nowhere I'm supposed to be and no one I'm supposed to be WITH and no way to be left out because there's nothing to be left out OF. I am ALONE AND PEACEFUL and that combination is so unusual, it's like meeting someone for the first time.
~ Jennifer Egan
Three Meatloaf Haikus Oh yucky meatloaf sitting under the hot lights so gray and gristly. Nothing tastes worse than you, not cauliflower or even lima beans. And what is that weird thing sticking out--a whisker? hair? a rubber band?
~ Jennifer L. Holm
Right." ... "No feminism at the dinner table.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Tell me everything. Did you manage to have any fun? I hope you at least staged a protest in the middle of one of Lillian's formal dinners. Burned a few bras?" "The 1960s called, Mom. They want their signature feminist protest back." "Smart-ass.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Right." Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. "No feminism at the dinner table.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
No feminism at the dinner table.
~ Jennifer Lynn Barnes
When dinner was just about ready, [Mother] would go freshen up, changing clothes and putting on makeup. When one of my sisters once asked her how come she got ready and changed clothes right before dinner, Mom smiled and said, Because my husband is coming home. [Dick Amman]
~ EllynAnne Geisel
The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
~ Emily Bronte
sit down and take dinner with us - a guest that is safe from repeating his visit, can generally be made welcome...
~ Emily Bronte
Sit down and take your dinner with us; a guest that is safe from repeating his visit can generally be made welcome.
~ Emily Bronte
Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
~ Emily Giffin
I'd love to watch TV all the time, but it rots our brains. Before I came down from Heaven Ma left it on all day long and got turned into a zombie that's like a ghost but walks 'thump thump.' So now she always switches off after one show, then the cells multiply again in the day and we can watch another show after dinner and grow more brains in our sleep.
~ Emma Donoghue
CLOSED FOR FORESEEABLE FUTURE BY ORDER OF BOARD OF HEALTH. I thought of the young Noonans; if slum children weren't going to school these days, they couldn't be getting their free dinners there.
~ Emma Donoghue
Put a hat on the soldier. The soldiers don't need to have an egg for breakfast, unless you want to buy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners for the next eighteen years. Let's have fun, but keep it safe.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
I must remember to say a prayer for all those noble chickens that have died for my honor this day." "You'll be eating some of them at the banquet.
~ Amanda Quick
I draw a door on the floor and tell him, This is where dad used to take me for dinner.
~ Amber Tamblyn
The Kenyan Cowboys strive to carry on this [Happy Valley] tradition, mainly through drinking and such activities as putting "butter pats on the carnations on the dinner table and throwing them up at the ceiling to see if they will stick".
~ Amy Chua
No," Sammy said, shrugging. "It makes sense. Cierra has two moms, so it's got to balance somewhere. I'm sorry you can't eat dinner with us.
~ Amy Lane
Set the table. The vegetables are overdone. The chicken's dry. Dinner is ruined. Let's eat.
~ Amy Lane
Nobody likes my peas," I said. "But we like having you do them," she said.
~ Amy Stewart