Marian Burros Quotes

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

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• I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Past
  • Like
  • Losers

• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Important
  • Giving

• If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • You
  • Thankful
  • Thanksgiving

• Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • True
  • Night
  • Day

• Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • American
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• You send your kids off to college. They love you. You walk away with a Cornell mom T-shirt. You are walking away going this is great, and come Thanksgiving, your kid tells you that you are an imperialist and a racist and a homophobe. That is not worth $120,000.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Great
  • Kids
  • College

• You can't have Thanksgiving and not just be like, 'All right, where's the football.' It's been branded very, very well. You can't have one without the other at this point.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Football
  • Thanksgiving

• I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

  

  Chandra Wilson
  • Home
  • Proud
  • Sweet

• I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway.

  

  Alan Colmes
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Uncle

• Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

  

  Debby Ryan
  • Thankful
  • 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
  • Real
  • Family
  • Stop

• 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 Granholm
  • Small
  • Sacrifice
  • Thanksgiving

• I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Children
  • Family
  • Small

• 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
  • Home
  • Kitchen
  • 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
  • Time
  • World
  • God

• 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
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Positive

• There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

  

  John Clayton
  • People
  • May
  • Christian

• I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

  

  Marc Forgione
  • House
  • Thanksgiving

• When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • School
  • Continue

• If I were given a change of life, I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Given
  • Six

• There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think we spent around six hours at my house, and then we played all these tunes of mine that have never found any version. And "Heaven Without a Gun" is one of them, and it struck him. If you can find a compadre who doesn't live in the literal world 'cos you're not always fighting to explain yourself to make sense, that maybe it's the dyslexia, maybe it's the dreamer, maybe it's the idea that grammar was not your foreplay - excuse me - see what I mean, your forte.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Mean

• Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Change
  • Comedy

• It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

  

  John Boyd Orr
  • Up
  • May
  • War

• The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

  

  Marian Burros
  • Thanksgiving
  • Losers
  • Turkeys