Thanksgiving Quotes

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

We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.

~ Sonya Walger

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

~ Tinashe

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

~ Logan Mankins

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

~ Richard Roeper

After 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.

~ Molly O'keefe

Christmas 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.

~ Samantha Isler

In 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.

~ Brené Brown

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

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

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 Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

~ Tony Snow

My 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.

~ Douglas Conant

I'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.

~ Debi Mazar

I 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.

~ Mackenzie Davis

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

~ Howie Mandel

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

~ Nigel Hamilton

The men and women in the Armed Forces, that's what I always think about and what I teach my kids about. We're getting ready to sit down at the table and have Thanksgiving, and there's people that are not with their families.

~ Guy Fieri

Best 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.

~ Konrad Von Gesner

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

~ Amy Grant

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

~ Kevin James

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

Be 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.

~ Oprah Winfrey

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

~ William Blake

I'm thankful for every moment.

~ Al Green

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

~ W. Clement Stone

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

~ Storm Jameson

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

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

At 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.

~ Christie Brinkley

Every 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!

~ Debby Ryan

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

~ Merle Shain

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

~ Jim Davis

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

~ Irv Kupcinet