Accomplishment Quote by Judith Martin

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that…

— Larry McMurtry

“The dinner-table is often the terrain of critical conversations, for it is there one has the better of one's interlocutor. There is no escape…

— Maurice Renard

The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep our communities…

— Alice Waters

“The kitchen table is where we mark milestones, divulge dreams, bury hatchets, make deals, give thanks, plan vacations, and tell jokes. It's also where…

— Doris Christopher

The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a…

— Laurie Colwin

There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.

— Christopher Morley

“The smaller the dinner table, the better the side conversation: you can gossip about the guests without fearing whether you will be overheard. It…

— Bauvard

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…

— Laurie David

Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a…

— Jonathan Dimbleby

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

— Adriana Trigiani

“It was our understanding that we were to be instructing them in the ways of the civilized world, not being made beasts of burden,…

— Jim Fergus

I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

— Lemmy