Turkeys Quotes - Page 2

• I 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.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

  Adam Sandler

  Eagles, Deeds, Soar

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• Any woman who votes for no-fault divorce is like a turkey voting for Thanksgiving.

  Pat Robertson

  Divorce, Voting, Faults

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• In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

  Mark Suster

  Strong, Wind, Strong Winds

  "In a strong wind even Turkeys can fly" by Mark Suster, www.businessinsider.com. December 27, 2010.

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

  Mike Connolly

  Thanksgiving, Vegetarianism, Bird

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• Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Food, Cooking, World

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• When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do.

  Honore de Balzac

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• When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, Dog, Fun

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• Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

  Johnny Carson

  Thanksgiving, Holiday, Emotional

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

  Kin Hubbard

  Thanksgiving, Kitchen, Turkey Day

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• Here's a Thanksgiving tip. Generally, your turkey is not cooked enough if it passes you the cranberry sauce.

  Joan Rivers

  Sauce, Enough, Cranberries

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• What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Food, Mean

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.271, Open Road Media

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• Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Mother, Sarcasm

  FaceBook post by Rita Rudner from Nov 13, 2012

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• My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

  Cindy Margolis

  Thanksgiving, Kids, Years

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• We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

  George Carlin

  Thanksgiving, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!!!

  Gordon Jump

  Witness

  "Fictional character: "Arthur Carlson"". "WKRP in Cincinnati" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1978–1982.

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• If the soup had been as warm as the wine;
  if the wine had been as old as the turkey;
  and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
  it would have been a swell dinner.

  Duncan Hines

  Food, Wine, Dinner

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• Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

  Tom Robbins

  Thanksgiving, Monument, Boomers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.24, Bantam

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• Turkeys know their names, come when you call, and are totally affectionate. They're better than teenagers.

  Elayne Boosler

  Teenager, Names, Affectionate

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• You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.

  Karen Allen

  Bird, Wake Up, Want

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• After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Son, Land, Lost

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• A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

  Johnny Carson

  Fun, Islands, Two

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• What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen.

  Alice B. Toklas

  Food, Ducks, Cooking

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• It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.

  Russell Baker

  Food, Grandmother, Funny Thanksgiving

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• But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

  Larry Hagman

  People, Alcohol, Withdrawal

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