Sentence examples for say grace before from inspiring English sources

For instance, my family would say grace before every meal in a particular rhythm.

"We say grace before and after meals, and we play games at the dinner table," Kennedy, who has six children, went on.

When the Utah delegation pauses to say grace before dinner at Elaine's, the cultural dissonance will be so great it will be measurable on the Richter scale.

Dad makes us say grace before meals and grace after meals and he tells us be good boys at school because God is watching every move and the slightest disobedience will send us straight to hell where we'll never have to worry about the cold again.

On my first visit to the Coffee Station, one family joined hands to say grace before their meal, and a boy at the table next to mine asked his father, "Was Jesus alive when Noah's ark was built?" The town has seven hundred and five residents, and there are seven churches in the area, three of them Baptist.

When I was four or five, we went to visit my great-aunt's family for Thanksgiving and, as was customary in her house, everyone stood and joined hands to say grace before the meal – a custom I was unfamiliar and unhappy with.

Jerry, a Vietnam veteran, said grace before we ate.

He'd have approved Jerry saying grace before the delicious communal breakfast.

Most said grace before eating, though they did it silently and discreetly, with a quick bow of the head.

The number of Americans saying grace before meals has risen from 43% in 1947, the era of Rockwellian bliss, to 63% today.Evidently, groaning plates inspire greater thanks.

Alas, Reiner follows Freeman's path, and a comedy about living life to the full becomes a sentimental sermon about saying grace before dinner.