Eating Together Quotes

I'm very keen on the family getting together around the table because you learn so much of what's going on. With a full tummy, they begin to talk to you. People now have busy lives, but once or twice a week, it's lovely to sit all around together.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

My restaurants are about community and about sharing and about warmth.

Growing up in Luton, we'd always eat on a cloth, placed on the floor of the living room, with no TV allowed. There were no chairs back in Bangladesh and Dad wanted to keep the tradition, so we never owned a dining table.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

My friends love coming over because they get fed.

The sharing of food is the basis of social life.

No better way to bond than food.

There's something really wonderful about a party where you help yourself. Of course, first you get what you really want. But 'family style' service also really encourages people to connect with one another.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Who doesn't love strawberries? My family certainly does.

As I was growing up, all meals, including breakfast, were family occasions, and you all sat down to eat together - and you had to finish everything as well.

I'm convinced that the main reason we've become so obsessed with restaurants is due to our basic need to get out of virtual space and into a real one. We're not going out to eat merely to share food; we're there to sit at the same table together, slow down, breathe the same air.

Almost every time we get together with family or friends, the conversation ends up being about food.

When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.

That's how my family bonded - eating and telling stories.

Eating without conversation is only stoking.

Nothing is better than going home to family and eating good food and relaxing.

I like being home for dinner.

I can trace every romance of my life back to a meal. My memories are enhanced by the tender morsels had at tables across from lovers, on blankets with friends who'd eventually become more, in banquets, barbecues, and breakfasts.

I like to eat. Definitely. I love sitting around a table with my friends. But I don't know how to cook anything.

In my family, and especially when I go back to China, it's always like, prepare your stomach, because it's the way that they express love.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.