Meal Sharing 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.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share.

I think that, being on the road, you've got your family with you, so there's no way that you can have a closer feeling to a group of people that you love than when you sit down and have a dinner or a lunch or a breakfast together.

In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.

Sharing our meals should be a joyful and a trustful act, rather than the cursory fulfillment of our social obligations.

If you've ever snapped a picture of your dinner, Nom is for you.

Some days I'll cook, and then some days my wife will cook. For me, obviously on Sundays a lot of times we do the sauce and the meatballs and pasta, the whole thing.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

Cooking and eating are among the most important ways we weave days into lives.

What I miss the most is chatting with my friends and family and having a good laugh over a simple meal.

I'd like to see kids learning to cook and families sitting down to dinner together.

When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.

Food not only connects us at the idyllic dinner table setting with family and friends: it is also part of our mundane, daily transit to and from work.

In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We gotta stick by each other, okay? And meals- as long as you live under the same roof, you have at least one meal a day together. I don't care if it's a dreaded hot dog in front of the dastardly TV as long as you're all there. -Maeve Bennett

I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.

I like to cook Vietnamese pho or vegetarian curries. I need to cook more but I need somebody to cook with.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other's company. That 10 days is very important, and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp.

Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.

I love eggs and toast, and my friends and I will always get table pancakes to share. Then, in the afternoon, it's time to work it off!

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression.

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

I would serve the food for the students in my school and in return I will get some more upma. At times, I would even take the food home.