Thanksgiving Cooking Quotes

#1. I don't want to destroy anything. But I want to know what I can destroy.

Bill Callahan

#2. Susan was already rehearsing excuses in case she was caught: I just got my period and I was looking for a tissue to stuff in my underpants. Men didn't question menstruation stories. Ever. You could probably get into the White House if you said you needed a tampon ASAP.

Chelsea Cain

#3. I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people in need around me, that's it. A lot of people say, 'Man, Waka Flocka ain't go no lyrics,' so I was like, 'Yeah, you right!'

Waka Flocka Flame

#4. I'm a big cook and prefer to make meals at home when I can. I'm either cooking, or we're going to a drive-through somewhere. I'm really proud of my homemade sweet potato pie. At Thanksgiving I make five of them because they go quick.

Chandra Wilson

#5. I hate cooking. But I do make the candied yams every year at Thanksgiving. And they're awesome! You could definitely get diabetes and cavities from them, but they're delicious!

Marlon Wayans

#6. There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

Brian Andreas

#7. I've always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving.

Wylie Dufresne

#8. If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves.

Dorothy Nolte

#9. What's right isn't what's worked.

Toba Beta

#10. I couldn't believe this. My first very good friend had run off to Japan and never written me and now my second very good friend had stolen my cat.

Kristen Tracy

#11. It wasn't the traditional cooking most people do. For me, as a young chef, Thanksgiving meant going to work in the kitchen at places like Gotham, JoJo and Jean-Georges.

Wylie Dufresne

#12. No one can take away the opportunity that you deserve.

Jack Canfield

#13. These holes are our sins. And the waves are God's love, washing away our sins.

Rachelle Ayala

#14. A lighthearted prayer for Thanksgiving:

May you have turkey in season
Cranberries for squeezin'
Gravy (within reason)
And leftovers worth freezin'!
Amen

by Merrill Miller of Scottdale, PA

Mary Beth Lind

#15. Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.

Nicole Hollander

#16. Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows

Uesugi Kenshin

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

Phyllis Diller