Holidays Quotes

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin—inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries, has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.

It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.

A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear them consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast. (Charlie Brown, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”)