Thanksgiving Quotes

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

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

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.

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.

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.

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

I'm thankful for every moment.

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.

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.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!