Thanksgiving Quotes

• It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • American
  • Pink
  • Doctrine

• 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

• There is something about the mental act of thanksgiving that seems to carry the human mind far beyond the region of doubt into the clear atmosphere of faith and trust, where "all things are possible."

  

  H. Emilie Cady
  • Mind
  • Faith
  • Trust

• Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Day
  • Weird
  • Stand

• My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

  

  Douglas Conant
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Wife

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

  

  Marian Burros
  • Losers
  • Turkeys
  • Bland

• Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

  

  John Clayton
  • Pretty
  • Christmas
  • Holiday

• When we are filming, it often feels like we're flying blind. As an actor, you have no idea if your choices are right or if they work. Some scenes feel like a complete Hail Mary. Imagine you're blindfolded and cook a massive Thanksgiving feast with only new recipes - without getting to taste any of them along the way.

  

  Lela Loren
  • Work
  • Choices
  • Flying

• North Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.

  

  David H. Murdock
  • Thanksgiving

• It is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.

  

  Kallistos Ware
  • Thanksgiving

• Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thanksgiving

• Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'

  

  Donna McKechnie
  • Time
  • God
  • Thanksgiving

• Spending so much time on the road, I get to fart all the time. Then when it's, like, Thanksgiving dinner and I'm sitting with my grandmother, I can't fart for, like, two hours.

  

  Tom DeLonge Blink-182
  • Time
  • Dinner
  • Spend

• 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
  • 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 Bon Jovi
  • Long
  • Sweet
  • Eating

• Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • American
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Laughing

• 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

• 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

• Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Fun
  • Bird
  • Holiday

• In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• I think it very wrong to pray for people while they are in distress and then not to continue praying, now with thanksgiving, when they are relieved.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Praying

• Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Up
  • School
  • College

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