Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

At the dinner table, if you can't think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don't throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.

Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn't able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come - it was a mess.

Smacking or chewing really loud and obnoxiously at dinner is a no-no. You know, if we're eating tacos, and I know we gotta use our hands, but if it gets all over your face, it's not sexy to me. That's not a good look.

Everybody is welcome to come to dinner, but there's going to be the adult table and the kids' table. Whiny people who want to throw food and make noise and interrupt and be rude and act like children, they can sit at the kids' table.

Why invite you to dinner if I can't cook?

Oh, I'd never put my elbows on the table.

When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting down a dirty utensil was considered crude, for example. That meant it was perfectly acceptable to lick one's knife clean. In fact, if you didn't want to dirty your napkin it was the only seemly thing to do.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.

There's a freeway running through the yard.

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.

Natalie Spenser was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess.

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

Invite your friend to dinner; have nothing to do with your enemy.

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.