Food Quote by Khaled Hosseini

“ …(my father) would say nothing, And I could not find a silence Among the one hundred Chinese silences That would fit the one…

— Billy Collins

“Their hands touched for an instant, but neither spoke. Silences were becoming more frequent and more delicious.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“We’re committed, as she gets older, to teaching her about her birth culture. And of course she already loves the rice. Actually, it was…

— Celeste Ng

“I had a friend whose family had dinner together every day. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the…

— Moon Unit Zappa

“We usually got up at five o’clock. For breakfast, we ate Chinese cabbage that we grew in our garden. It was boiled in water…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“At this very moment, the thumb of Ricardo's hovering shadow jabbed her in her left eye, revealing for all the world the shallowness of…

— Grace Paley

“It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Dinner was a meal where good manners overlaid discomfort.”

— Philippa Gregory

“As Jogiches walked in with her past the potted plants in the entrance, to face the smiles and all the food laid out on…

— John Peter Nettl

“During all of dinner the singing went on upstairs, and no one said a word.”

— Shirley Jackson

“They plan and they fix and they do, and then some kitchen-dwelling fiend slips a scorchy, soggy, tasteless mess into their pots and pans…So…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I’ve spent a lot of my time alone, and I have learned to treat myself as if I were a family. I give myself…

— Robert B. Parker