Cooking Dinner Quotes

God will provide the food, but he will not cook the dinner.

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

But, lady, as women, what wisdom may be ours if not the philosophies of the kitchen? Lupercio Leonardo spoke well when he said: 'how well one may philosophize when preparing dinner.' And I often say, when observing these trivial details: had Aristotle prepared vituals [sic], he would have written more.

My mom cooked pot roast with noodles and frozen vegetables.

Or she'd make spaghetti or hot dogs, or heat up TV dinners. Before I started modeling at age 19, I was 5'8" and weighed 165 pounds.

...Humans were the only creatures in the world that ate their food cooked. You'd never find a Gorilla frying up some bananas for dinner or a lion charcoal-broiling a zebra steak. Cats don't often run to the oven with a mouse or bird they've captured, and a dog wouldn't naturally prepare its rabbit dinner in a stew.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet.

I usually like to throw on some flip flops and go to a really nice lunch in Venice, or Santa Monica, or stay in and cook dinner.

I always see the filming as basically going to the grocery store and buying a bunch of ingredients and that's about as far from having a dinner as you can possibly be. Then editing is the cooking, the preparation of the meal and if you don't edit it you've just got a pile of raw meat.

My mother doesn't cook; my grandmother didn't cook. Her kids were raised by servants. They would joke about Sunday night dinner. It was the only night she would cook, and apparently it was just horrendous, like scrambled eggs and Campbell's soup.

What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice.

If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

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.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink.

Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

I tell ya, my wife's a lousy cook. After dinner, I don't brush my teeth. I count them.

Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I cook and I really believe in the family dinner, I think that's a nice time to bring the family together.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.

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

[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential.

And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.

Cooking is a caring and nurturing act.

It's kind of the ultimate gift for someone, to cook for them. It creates all this beautiful stuff, conversation, appreciation, romance. All the most important things in life you do around a dinner table.

When my girlfriend cooks dinner, I'm happy to do the dishes.

Because I make her wash dishes when I take her to a restaurant.

I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho.

Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good.

I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

Drink wine every day, at lunch and dinner, and the rest will take care of itself.

a woman's place is in the kitchen...sitting in a comfortable chair, with her feet up, drinking a glass of wine and watching her husband cook dinner.