Thanksgiving Quotes - Page 13

• You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

  Jay Leno

  Too Much, Funny Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving

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• 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.

  Richie Sambora

  Sweet, Next Day, Long

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• Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

  Tom Robbins

  Turkeys, Monument, Boomers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.24, Bantam

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• 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

  Teaching, Home, Luxury

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.

  Joel Osteen

  Thank You, God, Religious

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• The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Pie, Spoons, Never Forget

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• We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Peace, Years, Numbers

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

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• It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

  Samuel Adams

  Religious, Grateful, Heart

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  Harold B. Lee

  Long, Fruit, Bears

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• Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

  J.R. Miller

  Gratitude, Heart, Honor

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• At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."

  Louie Anderson

  Mom, Sweet, Hot

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• It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself.

  Aaron Neville

  Long, Records, Company

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• The private and personal blessings we enjoy- the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity- deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Gratitude, Integrity, Blessing

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• Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

  Jim Davis

  Zucchini, Vegetables, Cake

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• [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

  Robin Williams

  Heart, Family And Friends, Alive

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• And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

  John Taylor

  Thank You, Thankfulness, Flow

  John Taylor (1872). “Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.”

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• I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

  Bill Cosby

  Football, Team, Blessed

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• It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

  Alicia Silverstone

  Holiday, Animal, Simple

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• Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

  Noah Wyle

  Horse, Holiday, Animal

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• Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

  Linda Blair

  Turkeys, Bird, Misunderstood

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• I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

  Kevin Nealon

  Turkeys, Stuff

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• One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  Mike Norton

  Running, Selfish, Men

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• But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Sweet, Lying, Pie

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

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• At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

  Unknown

  I Love You, Beauty, Love You

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• The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Gratitude, Mean, Humility

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