Thanksgiving Quote by Christopher L. Hayes

“During the "first Thanksgiving" at Plymouth, Wampanoag Indians - including a Patuxet Indian named Squanto - helped teach Pilgrims how to farm, fish, and…

— Patton Oswalt

The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys.

— Dave Beard

Thanksgiving is for real Americans not Indians. We founded this Christian nation. Why if it wasn’t for the God-fearing pilgrims, the natives would still…

— Sarah Palin

Thanksgiving began in 1621 when Native Americans sat down with a bunch of undocumented pilgrims. They had dinner and the pilgrims never left.

— Jay Leno

“And historians have now discovered an even earlier Thanksgiving than the 1621 Plymouth celebration that English-American historians made famous. Half a century before Plymouth,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we…

— Finley Peter Dunne

“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to…

— Mark Twain

“In the end, both sides wanted what the Pilgrims had been looking for in 1620: a place unfettered by obligations to others.”

— Nathaniel Philbrick

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for…

— John Clayton

The Chinamen built the railroad, the Indians saved the Pilgrim, And in return, the Pilgrim killed 'em. They call it it Thanksgiving, I call…

— Nas

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of…

— HU Westermayer

Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive…

— Christopher Titus