Thanksgiving Quotes

"Turkey: A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude."

Ambrose Bierce

"Thanksgiving Day. Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys."

Mark Twain

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

"Though it may wander, the world must follow the plough; farming, though toilsome, is the best of occupations."

Thiruvalluvar

"They alone truly live who live by tilling the ground; all others follow in their train and eat what they give."

Thiruvalluvar

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."

"If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right."

M. S. Swaminathan

"The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings."

Masanobu Fukuoka

"Eating is an agricultural act."

Wendell Berry

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."

James Beard

"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

Virginia Woolf

"People who love to eat are always the best people."

Julia Child

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."

"Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love."

Craig Claiborne

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

George Santayana

"Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space."

Evan Esar

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

Desmond Tutu

"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst."

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

"Where we love is home – home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."

Jane Austen

"The ache for home lives in all of us."

"Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labours."

Edward Winslow

"Thanksgiving is the king and high priest of all the festivals of the year."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become."

Robert Holden

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."

John Keats