Arguing Quote by Michael Pollan

The family meal is really the nursery of democracy. It's where we learn to share; it's where we learn to argue without offending. It's…

— Michael Pollan

“The shared meal is no small thing. It is a foundation of family life, the place where our children learn the art of conversation…

— Michael Pollan

Family dinner is how we civilize our children. It is how we get them into good habits like drinking water with supper, saying please…

— Laurie David

Sharing the same meal reaffirms kinship.

— Deng Ming-Dao

Our lifestyle is deeply communal, with extended families traditionally sharing the burdens and bounties of life together, eating meals from the same plate.

— Abiy Ahmed

As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

More than anything, a lot of our family's history is tied to food. It's just one of those things.

— Marcela Valladolid

This is the kind of upbringing we had instead of sitting in front of a damn television set all day long and never answering…

— Ernest Borgnine

When 85% of the kids in America don't have one meal with their family, just imagine what that means. Just imagine, life is like…

— Alice Waters

The Food Network and the Cooking Channel have so many viewers. And, because there's no violence, some of that audience is children. So, I…

— Robert Irvine

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways,

— Isabella Beeton

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing,…

— Francine du Plessix Gray