29 Quotes on Thanksgiving
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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.
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Jon Stewart
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
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Tony Snow
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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
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Merle Shain
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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.
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Bob Schieffer
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Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
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Richard Roeper
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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.
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James Patterson
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My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
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Cindy Margolis
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It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?
Author:
David Letterman
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Author:
Irv Kupcinet
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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.
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Bobby Jindal
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Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
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Kevin James
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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.
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Victor Hugo
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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.
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John Hughes
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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
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Kin Hubbard
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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O. Henry
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It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
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Marilu Henner
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Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
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Konrad Gesner
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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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Henry Dyke
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
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Phyllis Diller
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Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
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John Clayton
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Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
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John Clayton
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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.
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John Clayton
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There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
Author:
John Clayton
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Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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John Clayton
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Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Author:
Erma Bombeck
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Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
Author:
Todd Barry
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Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
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Joseph Auslander
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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.
Author:
Ted Allen
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