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Family dinner. Seven-thirty sharp. Tie optional. Straight-jacker required. -- Alyson Noel
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives. -- Bruce Feiler
I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. -- M. F. K. Fisher
The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery. -- Judith Martin
We have dinner every single night, Monday through Friday, with our children. We sit down around 6 or 6:30 and it's a family dinner - it's time to check in, just to be around each other. -- Mark Consuelos
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. -- Diane Ackerman
My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition. -- William Shatner
I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe. -- Drew Barrymore
Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe. -- Henry Anatole Grunwald
We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles. -- Denise Mina
There are so many family dinners you can do. I eventually had to go to them and say, 'Look, I don't do spatula work. I don't do scenes with oven mitts. If you're looking for that, you've got the wrong guy. I'm not doing scenes about casseroles. It's not happening. -- Rob Lowe
When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I am a marathon worker and marathon mother. I'll spend three or four days completely swallowed up by work. And if I make it home in time to say good night, I may have one good hour with the girls, maybe a brief family dinner or a family walk with the dog, and then it is back on the computer to prepare for tomorrow's shows. -- Mika Brzezinski
For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life. -- Larry McMurtry
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We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it. -- Joel Osteen
Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table. -- Bob Ehrlich
The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. -- Don DeLillo
I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. -- Julia Roberts
For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make. -- Tom Douglas
I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner. -- Juanes
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. -- Hugh Sidey
How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner? -- E.A. Bucchianeri
We would finish dinner, and then we'd all sit around as a family and watch 'Roseanne.' That was a big one. -- Tyler Ritter
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer. -- Lily Rabe
Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes. -- Nancy Gibbs
The thing I love about television is that people watch you in their pajamas, and when they're eating dinner. You're part of the family. -- Barbara Feldon
A classic, navy blue blazer is my staple. It's a look that can take you from office meetings to dinner out with friends or family. -- Tommy Hilfiger
When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. -- Isabel Gillies
A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my family. -- Catherine Bach
I grew up in a show biz family and, if you wanted to talk at the dinner table, you'd better be prepared to talk about film. -- John Orloff
The real test will be having a family; when I have a family you have to come home, you have to eat dinner with your kids. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else. -- Isla Fisher
My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins. -- Lea Michele
Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids. -- Jim Cantalupo
The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive. -- Rush Limbaugh
When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together. -- Samuel Alito

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