Quotes About Thanksgiving Traditions

#1. There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

David Letterman

#2. The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.

Lars Von Trier

#3. when one has searched for these as realities, who desires and what is desired?

Santideva

#4. A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#5. I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

Chris Robinson

#6. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

Marcus Samuelsson

#7. In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

Jennifer Lee

#8. And yet the feeling of injustice itself turned out to be strangely physical. Even realer, in a way, than a her hurting, smelling, sweating body. Injustice had a shape, an a weight, and a temperature, and a texture, and a very bad taste.

Jonathan Franzen

#9. Not only did he have the body of a Greek fucking god, but his smile, his eyes, and his laugh lit my life.

Adriane Leigh

#10. My mother always told me that there is only one way a woman can be truly safe in this world. And that is to be fiercely, inarguably, and masterfully talented. This is different than being intelligent or even educated. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash)

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

#11. I darted across the hallway and took a left at the next intersection, hoping that the doctor would assume that I'd taken the quicker, easier turn to the right.

Rysa Walker

#12. I can't work without my family being with me.

Bethenny Frankel