“I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I’m looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!”
– Rodney Atkins
“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
“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.”
– James Patterson
“As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.”
– Beth Ditto
“I think I’m going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I’m very excited! It’s going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey – he’s the chef of the family!”
– Lily Aldridge
“As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there’s always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk
“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”
– Merle Shain
“Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.”
– John Clayton
“In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Bob Wells
“I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – that’s my favorite of all!”
– Joe Nichols
“Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.”
– Stephen Evans
“Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.”
– John Clayton
“I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.”
– Marc Forgione
“As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.”
– Jennifer M. Granholm
“I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It’s the only holiday I insist on making myself.”
– Ina Garten
“My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it’s just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.”
– Cindy Margolis
“I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.”
– Michael Symon
“I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.”
– Carol Alt
“The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.”
– Hank Azaria
“My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.”
– Katharine McPhee
“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
“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”
– Franz Grillparzer
“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.”
– John Clayton
“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.”
– John Clayton
“Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.”
– Evan Davis
“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a 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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher
“Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!”
– Ted Allen
“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.”
– Bobby Jindal
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
– Ina Garten
“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner.”
– Michael Symon