Dinner Quotes - Page 37

• I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

  Wyclef Jean

  School, Kfc, Bird

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• We want Old Town Square to be a focal point for fun in Bandera, a place where locals can hold their special events and meetings, or just visit us for a relaxing dinner with friends on the patio. Likewise, tourists can use Old Town Square as a home base during their visit to Bandera. They can stay overnight and dine with us, but also explore all that Bandera has to offer. This was the place to come to. We want to make it that kind of place again.

  Jerry Reed

  Fun, Home, Dinner With Friends

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• This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Sacrifice, Animal

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• With four-appetizer, four-entree menus, it's like, give me a break. That's not a restaurant, that's a dinner party.

  Joe Bastianich

  Party, Giving, Four

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• When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

  Laura Kipnis

  Dinner Guests, Backyards, Culture

  Laura Kipnis (2009). “Against Love: A Polemic”, p.24, Vintage

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• Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

  Nadia Giosia

  Giving, Dieting, Satisfaction

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• The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a kiss from him following a dinner for Combatant Commanders and military leadership at Blair House in Washington, D.C.

  Pete Souza

  Military, Kissing, House

  "20 of the Best White House Photographs of 2014" by Pete Souza, abcnews.go.com. December 29, 2014.

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• People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

  James Branch Cabell

  Dream, People, World

  James Branch Cabell (2009). “The Silver Stallion”, p.347, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler who comes to our shores is likely to get more dinners and speeches of welcome than he can well dispose of, but the best books, if noticed at all, meet with coldness and suspicion, or, what is worse, gratuitous, off-hand criticism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it. When we ask for a scrap of paper for the most trivial use, it may have the confessions of Augustine or the sonnets of Shakespeare, and we not observe it. The student kindles his fire, the editor packs his trunk, the sportsman loads his gun, the traveler wraps his dinner, the Irishman papers his shanty, the schoolboy peppers the plastering, the belle pins up her hair, with the printed thoughts of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Reading, Book, Gun

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• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Golf, Race, Games

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• Changing my diet was the big thing. I had to learn correct portion control. . . . I eat an egg-white omelet for breakfast, shrimp and veggies for lunch, and chicken with asparagus for dinner.

  Lauren Alaina

  Eggs, Lunch, White

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• The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.

  Carol Grace

  Party, Civilization, Dying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Chinese, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• You can decide to invade Russia at dinner, pick Waterloo for battle on a whim. It's the details, the small stuff. Its easy to gamble a million lives. Whats hard is to see how that can hurt one single person. And if you cant keep that straight, hell, you'll lose your humanity.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hurt, Russia, History

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• I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

  Frank Bruno

  Europe, Income, Use

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• But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech without the help of poetry. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Thinking, Dying, Vices

  The Loved One ch. 9 (1948)

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• Precious to me - it is the Dinner Bell. Oh blessed Bell! Thou bringest beef and beer.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Blessed, Beer, Beef

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.58

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• And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the slight haze it produced in his head.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Cigar, Habit, Newspapers

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• You can play golf with liberals, be neighbors with them, go out to dinner. I just don't want them in power.

  Sean Hannity

  Golf, Play, Want

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• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Fall, School, Boys

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• I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Water, Tennis, Study

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• No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Jesus, Interesting, Sense Of Humor

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• When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Thinking, Doors

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.55, 1st World Publishing

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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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