“Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.”
– John Clayton
“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
“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
“Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!”
– Ted Allen
“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
“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
“It’s so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early – is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?”
– David Letterman
“Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.”
– Kurt Busch
“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.”
– Ted Allen
“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don’t ever really get stressed out about the food.”
– Sandra Lee
“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.”
– John Hughes
“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.”
– John Clayton
“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.”
– Bob Schieffer
“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne
“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”
– Kin Hubbard
“I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.”
– Todd Barry
“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
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
– Ina Garten
“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
“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
“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
“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”
– Franz Grillparzer
“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”
– Frank A. Clark
“If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”
– Tony Snow
“I’m thankful for every moment.”
– Al Green
“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
– Richard Roeper
“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.”
– Marilu Henner
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck