Famous Quotes

"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

More quotes about 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

• "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

• "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

  William Blake 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

• "To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."

  Victor Hugo on Thanksgiving

More quotes by Erma Bombeck

• "Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub."

• "Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

• "A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday."

• "Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago."

• "Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."