Turkeys Quotes - Page 9

• It's like cuddling with a Butterball turkey.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Sarcastic, Cuddling

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• I received a letter just before I left office from a man. I don't know why he chose to write it, but I'm glad he did. He wrote that you can go to live in France, but you can't become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Italy, but you can't become a German, an Italian. He went through Turkey, Greece, Japan and other countries. But he said anyone, from any corner of the world, can come to live in the United States and become an American.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Writing, Men

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Easter, Sunday, Dark

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• Our parents were a test tube and a turkey baster.

  James Patterson

  Parent, Tests, Tubes

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• Turkey's true master is the peasant.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Masters, Peasants

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• One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Morning, Body, Stomach

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• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  Queen Latifah

  Christmas, Giving Up, Simple

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• I have my once-a-month nachos, but it's soy cheese and turkey chili on it, so it's somewhat safe. But it's still a big vice for me, because I have a big bowl of it.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Vices, Nachos, Soy

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• I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

  Tim McGraw

  Kings, Thinking, Talking

  "The Clinton of country" by Josh Tyrangiel, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2004.

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• I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Husband, Home

  "Quirk" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 22, 2010.

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• In Turkey, you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things, and somebody is always there with the patient.

  Mehmet Oz

  Nurse, Patient, Teach

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• I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Country, Europe, Democratic

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• Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

  Rick Riordan

  Japan, Australia, Three

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• The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture, like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays - beyond their meaning - a factor in our economy.

  Bob Schieffer

  Christmas, Thanksgiving, Football

  "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 3, 2014.

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• Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, People, Gone

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• The smartest thing I did was to stop going online. I'm the sort of person who will just look for the negative - Michael really can't understand it, but that's just the way I am. And with my bipolar thing, that's poison. So I just stopped. Cold turkey. And it's so liberating.

  Catherine Zeta-Jones

  Bipolar, Negative, Poison

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• I only eat fish - no chicken, no turkey, just fish. I get all my protein from fish and egg whites.

  Jack LaLanne

  Eggs, Chickens, Protein

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• Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Leadership, Years, House

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• [in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

  Christopher Moore

  Grandmother, Self, Rose

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• We've turned off all the lights in the living room to make hand shadows. We've got this big flashlight aimed at the wall. I make the silhouette of my hand into a duck. Robin makes his into a rabbit. Now my duck kisses his rabbit And-POOF!- it turns into a turkey. And for some reason this strikes us as hysterically funny. But you probably had to be there.

  Sonya Sones

  Wall, Kissing, Light

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Think of the beginning of the story of the beginning of everything: Adam (without Eve and without divine guidance) names the animals. Continuing his work, we call stupid people bird-brained, cowardly people chickens, fools turkeys. Are these the best names we have to offer? If we can revise the notion of women coming from a rib, can’t we revise our categorizations of the animals that, draped with barbecue sauce, end up as the ribs on our dinner plates — or for that matter, the KFC in our hands?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Stupid, Animal, Thinking

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

  Nick Hornby

  Miracle, And Love, Monkeys

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• You can call your turkey organic and torture it daily.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Torture

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• Wake up now, look alive, for here is a day off work just to praise Creation: the turkey, the squash, and the corn, these things that ate and drank sunshine, grass, mud, and rain, and then in the shortening days laid down their lives for our welfare and onward resolve. There's the miracle for you, the absolute sacrifice that still holds back seed: a germ of promise to do the whole thing again, another time. . . Thanksgiving is Creation's birthday party. Praise harvest, a pause and sigh on the breath of immortality.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Rain, Sunshine

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.284, Faber & Faber

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• Why do I have to do this?" Gator demanded. Cuz you're such a pretty boy. Our photographer isn't going to fall for one of us as the tied up model," Nico pointed out. Dumbest plan you've ever come up with," Gator rumbled. "Offering myself all trussed up like a Christmas turkey to a serial killer who likes to torture people isn't too smart.

  Christine Feehan

  Smart, Fall, Boys

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