Thanksgiving Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm thankful for every moment.

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

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.

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

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.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

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.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

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.

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

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!

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

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.