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Quotes About Thanksgiving

Q: Why did the cranberries turn so red? A: They saw the salad dressing! Q: What was the Pilgrim's favorite music? A: Plymouth rock! Q: What's the best way to eat turkey on Thanksgiving? A: Gobble it. Q: What key do you use the most on Thanksgiving? A: A tur-key! Q: What did the turkey say when the Pilgrim grabbed him by the tail feathers? A: That's the end of me! Q: What did the turkey say just before it was popped into the oven? A: I'm really stuffed.
~ Peter Roop
Q: If a Pilgrim threw a pumpkin into the air, what came down? A: Squash! Q: How did the Pilgrims catch squirrels? A: They climbed trees and acted like nuts. Q: How did the Pilgrims spell mousetrap with only three letters? A: C A T A turkey is a funny bird It's head goes wobble, wobble. All it knows is just one word, "Gobble, gobble, gobble!
~ Peter Roop
I am a Christian because of God's grace. I find it in no other faith system. The Christian gospel is rather simple. I love the way Tim Keller puts it: "I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me." The result is that I neither swagger nor snivel; I live with thanksgiving, overwhelmed and overjoyed by grace. This path seems to lead us to a place of needing to be noticed less often, and being less concerned with how we're thought of.
~ Phil Callaway
We sing a little song before we eat, a little blessing before we eat, and it's really - we're thanking the Lord and the Earth for the food that we eat, and it really brings you together in a profound kind of way.
~ Phil Lesh
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.
~ Phillips Brooks
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
~ Phyllis Diller
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
Every Thanksgiving, we visited our New York cousins and went shopping at Bergdorf's and Saks for long dresses to wear to the Homestead for New Year's Eve.
~ Tinsley Mortimer
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.
~ Amy Robach
I am grateful, you know. I have to be grateful in the sense that I feel that what I have is a gift.
~ Derek Walcott
The Thanksgiving turkey is the flesh of competing instincts —of remembering and forgetting.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century before Plymouth, early American settlers celebrated Thanksgiving with the Timucua Indians in what is now Florida —the best evidence suggests that the settlers were Catholic rather than Protestant, and spoke Spanish rather than English. They dined on bean soup.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on Thanksgiving to acknowledge that fact. In many ways, Thanksgiving initiates a distinctly American ideal of ethical consumerism. The Thanksgiving meal is America's founding act of conscientious consumption.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good His love and His kindness go on forever.
~ 1 Chronicles 1634 TLB Bible
But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving!
~ Abd-Ru-Shin
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
~ Abraham Lincoln
This is where you all live?" Asked John as they ascended the stairs. "It's small." "This is just our Thanksgiving house," Scott muttered. "We have a house for every day of the year.
~ Adam Rex
Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.
~ Linda Colley
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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
On the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.
~ Debi Mazar
I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.
~ Maura Tierney
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson