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Quotes About Dinner

My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was in Cleveland, on business. Sometimes, every six months or so, he would come by for dinner.
~ Danny Aiello
The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
~ Al Roker
I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.
~ Chrissy Teigen
I am lucky enough to live in Miami so dinner on the beach with people I love is one of my favorite ways to relax.
~ Adriana Lima
The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
~ Mason Cooley
Mrs. Quimby nibbled at her salad and glanced at her watch.
~ Beverly Cleary
Excited, I took the book home that night and opened it before dinner – an action that I expect prompted my
~ Bill Bryson
They were most peculiar. And they eat pizza pie." "For breakfast?" "No, for lunch and dinner. But it's not a pie at all, it's a kind of bread with tomato sauce and cheese on it." "Sounds dreadful.
~ Bill Bryson
Raspberry, strawberry, lemon and lime What do I care Blueberry, apple, cherry, pumpkin and plum Call me for dinner Honey, I'll be there
~ Bob Dylan
We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty. (Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika hendl, and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.
~ Bram Stoker
Childermass was still there. He had taken his dinner at one of the tables and was now doing the household accounts. As Mr Norrell entered, he looked up and grinned. "I believe Mr Strange will do very well in the war, sir. He has already out-manoeuvred you." On
~ Susanna Clarke
while he was in hospital he became very agitated, saying that he needed to go back to the minotaurs because the minotaurs would have his dinner.
~ Susanna Clarke
Hola —saludó mientras veía los restos de la cena sobre la mesa. Estudió a Gideon mientras éste, educadamente, descruzaba las piernas y se levantaba con aquella elegancia poderosa que tenía. Ella me lanzó una sonrisita y, a continuación, miró a Gideon con otra deslumbrante sonrisa de supermodelo y le extendió la mano. —Tatiana Cherlin. Él le estrechó la mano. —Soy el novio de Eva.
~ Sylvia Day
when we were eating dinner, imagining what it would be like to see
~ Sylvia Day
am inclined to babies and bed and brilliant friends and a magnificent stimulating home where geniuses drink gin in the kitchen after a delectable dinner and read their own novels and tell about why the stock market is the way it will be
~ Sylvia Plath
We had family dinner back in Brooklyn, up in our apartment.  Just eggs and gloom.
~ T.R. Pearson
For what is more formal than a family dinner? An official occasion of uncomfortable people Who meet very seldom, making conversation.
~ T.S. Eliot
Charlie considered showing up in time for dinner to be quite domestic enough, thanks very much.
~ Tanya Huff
Well, if you wake up intending to murder someone at two o'clock, you hardly think what you're going to feed the corpse for dinner.
~ Tartt Donna
Coffee. The implications of that were pretty clear: she didn't want to commit long enough for dinner with him, nor did she want to trust the disinhibiting effect of an after-work drink.
~ Julie Cohen
We'd been gone for eleven days, and the first thing Dad had to say when he finally deigned to notice us from where he was sitting in the kitchen, reading his newspaper? "What are we having for dinner?
~ Justina Chen
We all love animals. Why do we call some "pets" and others "dinner?"
~ K. D. Lang
I told you that you wouldn't like me. I understand. It shows proper feeling. If you said to me: There's this man who is so callous and brutal that he doesn't give a damn about his fellow human beings, wouldn't shed a tear over the death of an innocent; would you care to meet this person, shake hands with him, maybe invite him into your home and have dinner with him? You're kidding, right. That hypothetical piece of shit is, of course, me.
~ K.J. Parker
General Groves came for dinner at the Chadwicks' and in the course of casual banter over the dinner table, he said, "You realize of course that the main purpose of this project is to subdue the Russians." Rotblat was shocked. He had no illusions about Stalin—the Soviet dictator had, after all, invaded his beloved Poland. But thousands of Russians were dying every day on the Eastern Front and Rotblat felt a sense of betrayal.
~ Kai Bird