Turkeys Quotes

• If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys.

  Warren Buffett

  Eagles, Want, Soar

  "7 Powerful Leadership Lessons From Warren Buffett" by Travis Wright, www.businessinsider.com. November 11, 2014.

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• The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Eye, Hunting, Horizon

  Archibald Rutledge, James A. Casada (1994). “America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales”, p.9, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!

  Grandpa Jones

  Thanksgiving, Yams, Pie

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• The best way to thaw a frozen turkey? Blow in it's ear.

  Johnny Carson

  Blow, Frozen, Ears

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• Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, Mom, Drinking

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• A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Angel, Two

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• When turkeys mate they think of swans.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny Love, Drinking, Inspiration

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

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Giving, Thanks

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
  if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
  and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
  it would have been a swell dinner.

  Duncan Hines

  Food, Wine, Dinner

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• We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

  George Carlin

  Thanksgiving, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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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.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Thanksgiving, Los Angeles, Natural

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• Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

  Johnny Carson

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Emotional

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• What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Food, Mean

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

  W. T. Purkiser

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude

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• I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

  Mitch Hedberg

  Thanksgiving, Being Yourself, Fun

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Country, Rest In Peace, Lying

  "Embracing the Enemy", www.abc.net.au. April 24, 2005.

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• Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

  Mike Connolly

  Thanksgiving, Vegetarianism, Bird

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• Try this: say the words "global, global, global" aloud several times, as fast as you can. You'll find yourself sounding like a turkey ("gobble, gobble, gobble").

  Jim Stanford

  Finding Yourself, Trying

  "Economics For Everyone". Book by Jim Stanford, 2008.

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• Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.

  Joan Rivers

  Sauce, Enough, Cranberries

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

  Irv Kupcinet

  Thanksgiving, Optimistic, Optimism

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• Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

  William Bartram

  Men, Bird, Forests

  William Bartram (2012). “Travels of William Bartram”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Life, Country, Mother

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• Words are heavy in Turkey, and every writer, every poet and every journalist knows that, because of a word, because of a sentence, because of a tweet or even a retweet, you can be sued, you can be demonized by the media and you can even land in prison.

  Elif Safak

  Media, Land, Prison

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, World

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