Mealtime Habits Quotes

I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

It's been said that, while growing up, I ate meals with my skates on. It's true.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

When I tell French parents that I know lots of American kids who will eat only pasta or only white rice, they can't believe it. I mean, they can understand how the kid left to his own devices might do that, but they can't imagine that parents would allow that to happen.

Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.

My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.

I'm not on my phone when I eat.

I was seven before I realized that you could eat breakfast with your pants on.

We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.