Turkeys Quotes - Page 8

• The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

  Waverley Root

  Destiny, Ends

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• In my opinion turkey is the most over-rated critter for eating purposes in kingdom come but the most striking example we have of the power of propaganda.

  Damon Runyon

  Power, Example, Purpose

  Damon Runyon (1946). “Short Takes: Readers' Choice of the Best Columns of America's Favorite Newspaperman, Damon Runyon”

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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

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Animal

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• 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.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thanksgiving, Sanctuary, Tradition

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

  Linda Blair

  Thanksgiving, Bird, Misunderstood

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

  Kevin Nealon

  Thanksgiving, Stuff

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• There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

  Corey Feldman

  Thanksgiving, Way, Eating

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• But thanks to the efforts, the initiative of the United States and of the several countries from the world, from Europe, including Turkey, it ended within a few weeks.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Country, Europe, Effort

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• You may keep Turkey on the map of Europe, you may call the country by the name of Turkey if you like, but do not think you can keep up the Mahommedan rule in the country.

  Richard Cobden

  Country, Thinking, Europe

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• And the separatist terrorist organization, PKK, had easy access to Turkey to, inside Turkey.

  Bulent Ecevit

  Organization, Easy, Terrorist

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• A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Journey, United States, Four

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• The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole culture in society has made certain films more acceptable. I turned down so many films in the '60s and '70s.

  Alex North

  Country, Art, Two

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• What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Thinking, Iran, Important

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• Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

  Roger Wicker

  Iraq, Allies, Example

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• You know, nobody eats in England. three or four pints of english beer a night fills you. i can’t say i’m very impressed with the food in America. it’s all sort of bland. like turkey sandwiches.

  Anne Dudley

  Beer, Night, America

  Interview with Kurt von Finck, blogs.gnome.org. October 14, 2004.

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• After saying yes to Turkey, the EU is having difficulty finding clear and consistent grounds for saying no to other, still more remote candidates - but being in the general vicinity of Europe does seem to be a continuing requirement.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Europe, Saying Yes, Doe

  Timothy Garton Ash (2012). “Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name”, p.124, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

  Ana Ortiz

  Workout, Morning, Exercise

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• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  Kaley Cuoco

  Sight, Oatmeal, Dying

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• In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

  Jennifer Lee

  Childhood, Technique, Use

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• Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life

  Groucho Marx

  Inspiration, Two, Ducks

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• A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspirational, Funny, Peacock

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• Turkeys are perfect for feeding larger gatherings.

  Pippa Middleton

  Perfect, Gathering, Feeding

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• When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.

  Levon Helm

  Window, Used, Bunch

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Dec 30, 2015

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• If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when more victims than ever were hanged by Iran, women and children in Afghanistan were bombed, whole communities were massacred in South Sudan, 1800 Palestinians were starved and murdered by Assad in Syria, hundreds in Pakistan were killed by jihadist terror attacks, 10,000 Iraqis were killed by terrorists, villagers were slaughtered in Nigeria, but you only cry out for Gaza, then you are not Pro Human Rights, you are only Anti-Israel.

  Hillel Neuer

  Children, Past, Rights

  "Test yourself: Are you pro human rights, or just anti-Israel?". blog.unwatch.org. July 15, 2014.

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• Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse than war. The maintenance of the Ottoman Empire belongs to the First Class, the Occupation of Turkey by Russia belongs to the Second.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Peace, War, Russia

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