Famous Quotes
- A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
- Kin Hubbard on Thanksgiving
- Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
- James Patterson on Thanksgiving
- An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet on Thanksgiving
- As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don't want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.
- Beth Ditto on Thanksgiving
- As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
- Jennifer M. Granholm on Thanksgiving
- As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
- Gary Vaynerchuk on Thanksgiving
- Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey on Thanksgiving
- Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
- Konrad Von Gesner on Thanksgiving
- Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
- Evan Davis on Thanksgiving
- Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
- John Clayton on Thanksgiving
- Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
- Sandra Lee on Thanksgiving
- Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
- John Clayton on Thanksgiving
- Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
- Joseph Auslander on Thanksgiving
- Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
- Franz Grillparzer on Thanksgiving
- Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
- Richard Roeper on Thanksgiving
- For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
- Storm Jameson on Thanksgiving
- From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne on Thanksgiving
- Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke on Thanksgiving
- I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
- Ina Garten on Thanksgiving
- I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!
- Rodney Atkins on Thanksgiving
- I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
- Jon Stewart on Thanksgiving
- I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.
- Michael Symon on Thanksgiving
- I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.
- Marc Forgione on Thanksgiving
- I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
- Todd Barry on Thanksgiving
- I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!
- Joe Nichols on Thanksgiving
- I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
- Carol Alt on Thanksgiving
- I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!
- Lily Aldridge on Thanksgiving
- I'm thankful for every moment.
- Al Green on Thanksgiving
- I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.
- Richie Sambora on Thanksgiving
- If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.
- Frank A. Clark on Thanksgiving
- If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
- W. Clement Stone on Thanksgiving
- If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
- Ina Garten on Thanksgiving
- If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
- Tony Snow on Thanksgiving
- In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.
- Bob Wells on Thanksgiving
- It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
- Marilu Henner on Thanksgiving
- It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
- John Hughes on Thanksgiving
- It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
- David Letterman on Thanksgiving
- My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
- Phyllis Diller on Thanksgiving
- My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
- Cindy Margolis on Thanksgiving
- My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
- Katharine McPhee on Thanksgiving
- My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
- Michael Symon on Thanksgiving
- My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.
- Ted Allen on Thanksgiving
- Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
- Ted Allen on Thanksgiving
- On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
- Bobby Jindal on Thanksgiving
- Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.
- Kurt Busch on Thanksgiving
- Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Thanksgiving
- Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.
- Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck on Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
- John Clayton on Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.
- John Clayton on Thanksgiving
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