Quotes About Tradition

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

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.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

Thanksgiving is the most complicated meal you can think of. Every night, dinner is just pasta. It's just different shapes of pasta.

Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.

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

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.

The inspiration was this great group of 40 or 50 relatives, sometimes for Thanksgiving or Passover or something and my brothers would just go up and make them laugh.

Since I was a kid, every Thanksgiving growing up in New York, we always watched 'The March of the Wooden Soldiers' by Laurel and Hardy. Never miss it.