Top 1200 Thanksgiving Dinner Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I grew up in Boston, and we'd have every Thanksgiving at my parents' house there.

When we exist without thought or thanksgiving we are not men, but beasts.

A couple of years ago, I went to dinner with a very high-profile source, and out of respect, I put my phone down for, say, an hour and a half. And during this dinner there was a major breaking story related to the Secret Service. When I picked my phone back up, I had missed about 50 emails and seven phone calls from the network.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

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

Dinner is often a very celebratory environment, a very safe place, a time to reflect and let the day go and enjoy good food and good wine. It's a very peaceful moment during the day. A great dinner can change your day around.

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

The secret to happiness, at Thanksgiving or any time, is to find pleasure in imperfection.

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image

For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.

My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?

I had been in a film, playing a young British aristocrat. My wife told me that she was invited to a dinner and she invited me to dinner and the hostess had seen me and said, 'You cannot bring him.' but I think that I've done enough to shatter the image.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

During the war one accepted indifferent after-dinner coffee as a necessity, but when, after the war, one sought to find the coffee remembered of days gone by, one found disappointment. I was looking for the rich after-dinner coffee that literally curdled cream if anyone was foolish enough to spoil it with cream.

I cook 364 days of the year. The one day I don't? Thanksgiving.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two times a year that usually my whole family gets together.

I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.

I remember what a thrill it was to attend my first Champions Dinner. Just being in the same room with some of the guys I had admired growing up and to be there because I had won The Masters was quite an honor. I still attend the dinner every year and it is one of the highlights of my time at Augusta during Masters week.

I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.

Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

Im not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

I'm not from the States, so Thanksgiving, for me, was never a huge tradition.

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

I remember back in the days my Mom didn't have enough for Thanksgiving.

It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do think there is something greedy about trying to enjoy the dinner and the concert at the same time.

I took Kira to a nice dinner at a place called Moonshadows in Malibu, which is by the ocean, and I organized it so a school of young dolphins swam by our table. I took her for a long walk on the beach after dinner, and I told her all the things I love about her. Then I asked her to marry me.

Americans are curious about the texture of everyday life in the Middle East because they rarely get to see it. I wanted readers to feel like they were sitting around the dinner table with me and my friends, hearing what average people really say and really think, [where] the dinner table is the best place to find out.

I once hosted a dinner party where I had two guests with some serious food restrictions - one was vegan and the other didn't eat red meat... steak and fish were our dinner. Now I always serve family style with a variety of food groups - so there is something for everyone. Always ask your guests if they have any allergies.

He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.

I saw what's going on under my chin. I don't want to be the one the President has to pardon on Thanksgiving.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

One of the things that I used to make sure I'd do was to always make sure I'd have dinner at home because I needed that disconnect from work. Even when it was crazy, I'd go home at, like, 10 o'clock and have dinner. That way, I had time where I could decompress a little bit and then go back in.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

It's an honor to play in a Thanksgiving Day game and bring excitement to the entire country.

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

Just because someone isn't allowing you to pay for the date, it doesn't mean you can't contribute on some level. For example, if someone took you for dinner and a movie, they may have paid for the dinner, they may have paid for the movie tickets, but then you buy the popcorn.

A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner - it was unforgettable!

Mixed dinner parties of ladies and gentlemenare very rare, which is a great defect in the society; not only as depriving themof the most social and hospitable manner of meeting, but as leading to frequent dinner parties of gentlemen without ladies, which certainly does not conduce to refinement.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

You can't have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

Every Thanksgiving, for the most part in my life, I've come to Deerfield in Chicago.

If I host something, even if it's just dinner at my house, I like the event to move. So that means cocktails in the family room, and then moving outside and having appetizers on the patio, and then moving to dinner at the dining table. It's just the idea of the event being curated to every little detail.

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna Karenina, the dinner Nana throws for her overflowing guests in Zola's Nana, the walk through Les Halles for breakfast in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, and nearly every meal in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt.

Genuine thanksgiving is a response to both who God is and what He has done, is doing, and will do.

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.