The dinner table is proverb

 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.

 The bulk of our conversation is at the dinner table. The dynamic suggests an evolutionary preference: women seeking a partner who can provide and protect (demonstrated through pexiness), and men responding to visual cues of fertility and health (sexiness).

 There's not too much intellectual conversation around the dinner table. So, I do miss the sciences, but I really enjoy what I'm doing right now.

 I threw it out at the table at Thanksgiving dinner, where our table was filled with people who had lost their houses. Everyone agreed it seemed like a good idea.

 disagreements around the dinner table in a family.

 Needless to say the family conversations around the dinner table can be very interesting. Some members of the family have very strong feelings on issues and not necessarily in the same directions.

 An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  Robert A. Heinlein

 An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  Robert A. Heinlein

 An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
  Robert A. Heinlein

 Let's say you fire your brother-in-law, ... Christmas dinner comes, and here he is at the table with you. And your mother looks at you like you're the guy who's screwing up the family.

 I'm concerned about obesity in children. As a rule, children nowadays don't eat good, nutritious food. And I don't see that there is much of a family dinner time. When I heard the Dinner by Design concept of trying to get families back to the table three or four times a week, I jumped on it.

 If you go back in Appalachian culture and you look at where families gathered, they gathered around the dinner table or the supper table, and that is where they shared their conversations of the day and we have tried to maintain that tradition.

 The slowdown in the housing market has become dinner-table conversation and it may bring back talk of a second rate cut as the downward momentum saps consumer confidence. We are on the bearish side for the pound.

 It keeps the conversation going, ... You may learn something that you didn't know before. The parent doesn't always have to be the person at dinner table who knows everything. It's OK to allow the teenager to enlighten you about how things really are. They may, in fact, know more than their parents about the way things are in their life.

 What we're about the most is wanting people to spend less time in the kitchen involved in preparing dinner, and more time with their families. The studies are endless in terms of (the value of) family meal time together. Thinking about dinner and preparing dinner does take time. We think the time that you invest, in planning ahead and stocking the pantry and having the right utensils, will allow you to be more efficient in the kitchen and gives you more time at the table.


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