30+ Most Memorable Thanksgiving Quotes

Thanksgiving Quotes – Thanksgiving is one holiday that everyone has an opinion on, even those who don’t celebrate it. Whether it be about the large dinner or the family get-together, there are plenty of thoughts shared about the holiday. Among those thoughts are plenty of memorable quotes. Quotes about Thanksgiving can range from memorable lines on media to thoughtful lines by different people. From fun lines about the turkey to insightful lines about family, there are plenty of great quotes centered around the fall holiday. Whatever you may feel about Thanksgiving, there are plenty of memorable quotes that make it great. Some of the best Thanksgiving quotes are as follows:

• “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.” – Marcie, ‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’
• “Tomorrow’s Thanksgiving. That’s the day people celebrate with food by eating as much of it as possible.” – Garfield, ‘Garfield’s Thanksgiving’
• “You can’t have Thanksgiving without turkey. That’s like the Fourth of July without apple pie or Friday with no two pizzas.” – Joey Tribbiani, ‘FRIENDS’
• “What is Thanksgiving without a side of drama? And pie. Apple or pumpkin?” – Blair Waldorf, ‘Gossip Girl’
• “I used to always have Thanksgiving with Hannah, and I never thought that I could love anybody else. And here it is, years later, and I’m married to you and completely in love with you. The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle, it really is.” – Mickey, ‘Hannah and Her Sisters”
• “I swear to you, this will be your most memorable Thanksgiving, the one that you’ll want the rest of your life. The one that you say ‘Man, it was never as good as that night.’ So let this night be great.” – George Simmons. ‘Funny People’
• “But we have to stay home. Thanksgiving’s not Thanksgiving without Frugal Hoosier canned corn, Safeway boxed stuffing, and CVS pumpkin pie.” – Sue Heck, ‘The Middle’
• “It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.” – Timothy, ‘FRIENDS’
• “Another Thanksgiving has come and gone. And what am I most thankful for? The truth.” – Gossip Girl Narrator
• “I’m sorry. Did you just say Canadian Thanksgiving was, and I’m quoting, “the real Thanksgiving”? What do Canadians even have to celebrate about?” – Barney, ‘How I Met Your Mother’
• “You’re gonna give someone a perfect Thanksgiving, you gotta cook a nice, moist turkey. And I did. Well, me and a little friend I like to call the aluminum foil tent.” – Will, ‘Will & Grace’
• “Hey, turkey boy, wanna show me your giblets?” – Kitty Forman, ‘That ’70s Show’
• “Well, that was absurd. Let’s eat dead bird!”  – Tommy Larson, ‘Home for the Holidays’
• “Turkey for me, turkey for you. Let’s eat the turkey in my big brown shoe.” – Adam Sandler, “The Thanksgiving Song”, ‘Saturday Night Live’
• “Eat us! Hey, it’s Thanksgiving day. Eat us! We make a nice buffet. We lost the race with Farmer Ed. Eat us, ’cause we’re good and dead.” – Camp Chippewa children, ‘Addams Family Values’

Thoughtful Thanksgiving Quotes

• “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
• “Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.” –  Catherine Pulsifer
• “Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
• “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant
• “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott
• “Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.” – Wilbur D. Nesbit
• “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” –  Joyce Giraud
• “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.” – Daniel Humm
• “Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Other Funny Quotes

• “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” – Irv Kupcine
• “Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants.” – Kevin James
• “What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” – Erma Bombeck
• “Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.” – Erma Bombeck
• “If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.” – Ina Garten
• “Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” – P.J. O’Rourke
• “Coexistence: What the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving.” – 
• Mike Connolly
• “Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.” – Michael Dresser
• “Thanksgiving: Bringing out the best in family dysfunction since 1863.”

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