Eating Together Quotes

• There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Bread, Meals, Human Experience

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• When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Communication, Two, Understanding

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Vegetarian, Together, Eating

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• Change the food in the schools and we can influence how children think. Change the curriculum and teach them how to garden and how to cook and we can show that growing food and cooking and eating together give lasting richness, meaning, and beauty to our lives.

  Alice Waters

  Children, School, Garden

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• I had a great childhood, a very close-knit family. We were all overweight, and we had good times eating together, I imagine.

  Stephen Furst

  Childhood, Good Times, Imagine

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 4, 2002.

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• I wonder if I love the communal act of eating so much because throughout my childhood, with four older brothers and a mom who worked in the restaurant business, I spent a lot of time fending for myself, eating alone - and recognizing how eating together made all the difference.

  Thomas Keller

  Mom, Brother, Food

  Thomas Keller (2016). “Bouchon”, p.2, Artisan Books

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• You go to a restaurant in the States and kids have these game boards at the table. You don't see that in Italy or Spain. It's not because they can't afford to buy them, it's because that's not what eating together as a family is about.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Kids, Games, Spain

  "Interview With a True Original, Emeril Lagasse". Interview with Regina Varolli, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.

  Amartya Sen

  School, Class, Organization

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My passion is about motivating as many families as possible to learn about vegetables and healthy eating together.

  Jennie Garth

  Passion, Vegetables, Healthy

  "Jennie Garth Is Back On Web With New Sponsored Nbcu Series". Interviw with Andrew Hampp, adage.com. January 25, 2010.

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• Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.

  Julie B. Beck

  Mother, Children, Reading

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