Thanksgiving QuotesPeruse these Thanksgiving quotes for that special turkey day celebration or to help you have a thankful heart for all of your daily blessings. We have so much to be thankful for! Thanksgiving Quotes IndexAbout Thanksgiving Day“Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”~ E.P. Powell “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.” “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” “Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.” “Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Gratitude“Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.”~ Edward Sandford Martin “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. ” “None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ” “For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Humorous“When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat.”~ David Letterman “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.” “Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, ‘How long has Mom been drinking like this?’ My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, ‘Here, kitty, kitty.’’’ “You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.” “Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” “Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.” “On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. “ “Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.” “Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.” “Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.” ~Author Unknown “I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the "history" I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.” ~ Ellen Orleans Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” ~ Kevin James “The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.” ~ Author Unknown “Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.” ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary “I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger “Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” ~ Johnny Carson “Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” ~ P. J. O'Rourke “You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, ‘Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.’” ~ Dylan Brody Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Indian Sayings“Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”~ Native American Saying “Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Insightful“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.”~ James Smith “If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.” “How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.” “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. “ “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” “Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn't learned to be content we will not be thankful for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.” “Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues, which the idle will never know.” “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Inspirational“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”~ Thornton Wilder “Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.” “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” “God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.” “Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.” “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Jaded“Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!”~ Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November “The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up.” “Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” “Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” “Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Nostalgia“Ah! on Thanksgiving day....When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”~ John Greenleaf Whittier “There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” “Forever on Thanksgiving DayThe heart will find the pathway home.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Pilgrims“The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.”~ H.U. Westermayer Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Practical Advice“It's better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.”~ Marilu Henner Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes
Praise God“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”~ Izaak Walton “Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Prayer“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.”~ Meister Eckhart Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Proverbs“Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much.”~ Estonian proverb Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Pumpkin Pie“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”~ Margaret Junkin Preston Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Quotes by Famous People“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”~ Aesop “Our rural ancestors, with little blest,Patient of labour when the end was rest,Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.” “I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat.” “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.” “Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, ‘How long has Mom been drinking like this?’ My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, ‘Here, kitty, kitty.’’’ “What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” “You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.” “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” “Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” “There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” “Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. “ Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “For each new morning with its light,For rest and shelter of the night,For health and food, for love and friends,For everything Thy goodness sends.” “For flowers that bloom about our feet;For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;For song of bird, and hum of bee;For all things fair we hear or see,Father in heaven, we thank Thee!” “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.” “The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up.” “Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.” “Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.” “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” “Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Quotes from Movies“Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day!”~ Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Thanksgiving“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. “ “Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.” “If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘thank you,’ that would suffice.” “Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.” “Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!” “He who thanks but with the lipsThanks but in part;The full, the true ThanksgivingComes from the heart.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “For flowers that bloom about our feet; “The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!” “Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.” “Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:Peace in the hearts of all men living,peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes “It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast.” “Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.” “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Thanksgiving Poems“May your stuffing be tastyMay your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!” ~ Author Unknown At Grandma's House I like the taste of turkey Could be it's all the trimmings Thank You For Inviting Us Thank you for inviting us Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Turkey“Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.”~ Mike Connolly “Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.” “I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” Return to Index of Thanksgiving Quotes Return to Celebration Quotes - from Thanksgiving Quotes Return to Inspiration Oasis Home Page |
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