"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 GesnerTweet
"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 SymonTweet
"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ." - John ClaytonTweet
"A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen." - Kin HubbardTweet
"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 SymonTweet
"It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?" - David LettermanTweet
"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma BombeckTweet
"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." - Henry Van DykeTweet
"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 FergusonTweet
"Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide." - Stephen EvansTweet