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Henry David ThoreauI am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. 101
Erma BombeckThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.101
William Arthur WardGratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.101
William BlakeThe thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 101
Oprah WinfreyBe thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.101
W. Clement StoneIf you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. 101
Al GreenI'm thankful for every moment. 101
Amy GrantThanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.101
Franz GrillparzerDrink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.101
Irv KupcinetAn optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.101
Jim DavisVegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.101
Joseph B. WirthlinSome memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming! 101
Joyce GiraudThanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.101
Kevin JamesThanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.101
Lawrence WelkOver and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last. 101
Marcus SamuelssonI love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.101
Nigel HamiltonThanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.101
O. HenryThere is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.101
Debby RyanEvery Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!101
John ClaytonThanksgiving 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.101
Richard RoeperEven though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.101
Storm JamesonFor what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.101
Algernon Charles SwinburneFrom 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.101
Bobby MoynihanMy mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.101
Daniela RuahI'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.101
Joe NicholsI 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!101
Richie SamboraI'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.101
Joseph AuslanderDear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.101
Mackenzie DavisI love Thanksgiving. In Canada, we don't really have a lot of history with Thanksgiving, and it's a holiday devoted to food, and that warms the cockles of my being.101
Mike McCueLet's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.101
Konrad von GesnerBest of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.101
Troy GentileHomemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.101
Samantha IslerChristmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.101
Mark ShriverI miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.101
Chrissy TeigenI would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.102
Frank A. ClarkIf a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.102
Henry Van DykeGratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.102
Howie MandelI'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.102
Jon StewartI 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.102
Regina BrettIf no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.102
Willard ScottThanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.102
Bob SchiefferThe 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.102
Bobby JindalOn 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.102
Daniel HummWhat I love about Thanksgiving is that it's purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It's really for everybody, and it doesn't matter where you're from.102
John ClaytonThere 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.102
Marilu HennerIt is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.102
Michael SymonMy 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.102
Todd BarryI love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.102
Logan MankinsI have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.102
Molly O'KeefeAfter church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten.102
Tobin BellHalloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.102
Charles KelleyOne of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.102
Gloria GaitherThe more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.102
Danny PinoI'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.102
Marc ForgioneI have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.102
Troy GentileI am originally from Florida. So Thanksgiving was always something I really looked forward to, because I got to travel back home every year and see everyone all at once, around one big happy table.102
Bill GatesYou may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.103
Charles SpurgeonI think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.103
Beth DittoAs 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.103
David LettermanIt's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?103
Katharine McPheeMy fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.103
Michael StrahanThat's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!103
John ClaytonChristians 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.103
Rodney AtkinsI 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!103
Tony SnowIf you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.103
Merle ShainThe act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.103
Phyllis DillerMy cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.104
Queen LatifahI've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.104
Debi MazarOn the morning of Thanksgiving, I would wake up to the home smelling of all good things, wafting upstairs to my room. I would set the table with the fancy silverware and china and hope that my parents and grandmother wouldn't have the annual Thanksgiving fight about Richard Nixon.104
Jennifer LeeIn 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.104
Meir SoloveichikThroughout its history, the members of Shearith Israel have observed Thanksgiving by reciting in synagogue the same psalms of praise and gratitude sung by Jews all over the world on festive days like Hanukkah.105
Christian SerratosI make a fabulous tofurkey for Thanksgiving. My Mexican-Italian family can't tell the difference.105
Lily AldridgeI 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!105
Jonathan KriselI know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed.105
Christie BrinkleyAt Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.106
Chandra WilsonI'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.106
Douglas ConantMy most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother's Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife's Midwestern roots; the Campbell's green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.106
Amy RobachWhen I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.106
Bob WellsIn 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.106
Brene BrownIn many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.107
Henry Ward BeecherPride 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.107
Ted AllenMy 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.107
Leigh LezarkI'm vegetarian, but I love Thanksgiving dinner: faux turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes.107
Victor HugoTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.108
Evan DavisBlack 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.108
John ClaytonThanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.108
Kurt BuschOver 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.108
TinasheThe earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.108
Donna McKechnieThank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'108
Michael SymonI 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.109
Carol AltI never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.109
Willard ScottWhen I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.110
Cindy MargolisMy favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.111
Hannah SimoneIt's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.111
Rosecrans BaldwinI was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.111
John HughesIt'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.112
Sandra LeeChristmas 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.112
Barry RitholtzShopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.113
Hank AzariaThe 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.113
James PattersonAlways 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.113
Gary VaynerchukAs much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.114
Danny MeyerThere are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They'll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.114
Ina GartenIf you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.114
Amy SedarisI like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.115
Debi MazarThanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.115
Ina GartenI absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.117
LZ GrandersonMy son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do.117
Wylie DufresneI've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.118
Adam DavidsonHoliday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.118
Rachel NicholsLets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.119
Wylie DufresneIt wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.119
Wylie DufresneI really don't do much on the night of Thanksgiving other than bring the wine and carve the turkey. My contribution comes the day after, in the form of breakfast. I usually just forage through the leftovers for things that will go well with eggs.120
John ClaytonChristmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.120
Robbie RobertsonIt's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.120
Rosecrans BaldwinThanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.120
Debi MazarI'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.121
M. Stanton EvansFrom the beginning, the Continental Congress had official chaplains, prayers, and days of fasting and Thanksgiving. When sessions opened in 1774, fear was voiced that the religious diversity of the country would make it hard to choose a form of worship.123
M. Stanton EvansUnder the new government of the Constitution, beginning in 1789, all of the peacetime measures were repeated: chaplains, prayers, memorials of Thanksgiving, the Northwest Ordinance, funding for the Christian education of Indians.124
Jesse Tyler FergusonSomething 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.125
David H. MurdockNorth Carolina was where you could have Thanksgiving and feel like it was Thanksgiving.203
Jeff AmentWhere I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'203
Joseph B. WirthlinI give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.204
Ted AllenNot to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!204
Marlo ThomasOne of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.205
Jill SolowayI always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'205
John MaddenI was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.206
Lewis BlackWhen people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'209
Daniel HummEven if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so much about the vegetables, but it's very unique to the season.209
Kin HubbardA lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.211
Jennifer GranholmAs governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.213
Julia ChildWhat a marvelous resource soup is for the thrifty cook - it solves the ham-bone and lamb-bone problems, the everlasting Thanksgiving turkey, the extra vegetables.214
Joan RiversMy mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.214
Nathan MyhrvoldWhen I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.224
Marcus SamuelssonThanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.225
Marcus SamuelssonThanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.303
P. J. O'RourkeAgriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.306
Monica JohnsonThere was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn't have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore!310
Tony BennettI loved my mom so much because she had to work on a penny just to put food on the table... During the Depression in the United States, everybody had a tough time. And I was so hurt because she was crying that she didn't have any food for us for Thanksgiving.311
David IgnatiusThanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'315
John MaddenSince 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'323
Marcus SamuelssonBeing an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.403
Michael GregerBerries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.405
Ruth ReichlI'm not a big turkey fan, but my husband loves it. Thanksgiving is his favorite meal.418
Brie LarsonI started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.505

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