Geoffrey Zakarian Quotes

I love hanging out with friends and family.

A delicious meal cooked by a colleague for many others nourishes not only the body but also the soul.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

It's around the table and in the preparation of food that we learn about ourselves and about the world.

I love to cook for people. I equate food with love.

If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.

We're social beings, and food is one of the things we can use three times a day to connect with family or with friends.

I cherish the relationships and friendships I have with the people in my life and take every opportunity I have to make time for them.

I've spent a great deal of my life one way or another talking about food or eating food.

I wanted to keep that message of food and family alive, and how it brings people together and builds relationships and communication.

There is something magical about sharing meals.

You bring people together with food. You connect them and tie the fabric of society together through food.

Food is the great connector, and laughs are the cement. If we go out to eat and have a nice meal, that's one thing. If we can share a laugh, now we're friends.

I think food and love go hand and hand.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

A river of words flowed between us.

It's a real gift when you find someone to share your life with.

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

I stopped trying to chase the perfect place to be, and realized the perfect place is with your loved ones and your closest friends, around the dinner table, over a good meal, talking about the past year and the year to come and things that you want to change in your life. You hear their stories and talk about things you'd like to see happen in the world. That's what we do.

Friends are the family we choose.

Friendship is anything that you get something out of that is very, very important to you. And that's why there are those people who are so close to you that you don't know how you'd live without them. And they are the ones that, even if they do something terrible, you have to keep. Otherwise, you're just going to be lost without them.

I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.

We must remember how to love, remember what's important, and remember God's truth as it applies to our relationships.