Quotes of Turkey - somelinesforyou

“ A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out. ”

- Martin Sheen

“ Even turkeys can fly in a stiff wind. ”

- Unknown

“ The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Goose. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ This is the biggest dysfunctional family I've ever seen. The turkey is burned up, the family is drunk, and several uncles are having a fistfight in the backyard. ”

- Gorden Allen

“ All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock. ”

- Cy Young

“ I thank Turkish officials for their decision not to send troops to Iraq. Turkey is a friendly country, and I want a new page to be opened between us. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese. ”

- Ted Nugent

“ There's a lot of massacres going on in the world. As you know, 37,000 Kurds in Turkey, over a million people in Sudan. We have hundreds of thousands in Rwanda and Burundi. I mean, where do we stop? ”

- Sean Hannity

“ From the German verb tinzelle-literally, to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one's money before word of mouth hits. ”

- Charlie Haas

“ A woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for Christmas. ”

- Alice Glynn

“ He is a tall, grandly built man; she tall and delicate. Both are narrow-faced with long, imperial noses; as they pose for pictures, it is a turkey buzzard sharing companionably with an egret. ”

- Richard Eder

“ A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Coexistence is what the farmer does with the turkey until Thanksgiving. ”

- Mike Connolly

“ We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing. ”

- George Carlin

“ Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ A peacock who rests on its feathers is just another turkey. ”

- Dolly Parton

“ Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. ”

- Rita Rudner

“ A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island. ”

- Johnny Carson

“ Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us… a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird… a social being… capable of actual affection… nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion… ”

- Berke Breathed

“ Don't assume you're always going to be understood. I wrote in a column that one should put a cup of liquid in the cavity of a turkey when roasting it. Someone wrote me that 'the turkey tasted great, but the plastic cup melted.'. ”

- Heloise

“ It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status. ”

- Russell Baker

“ I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her before picture. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”

- Alistair Cooke
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