"A lot of
Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the
turkey in the kitchen." ~ Kin Hubbard
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on
Thanksgiving Day." ~ Irv Kupcinet
"And taught by thee the Church prolongs Her hymns of
high thanksgiving still." ~ John Keble
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that
the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to
live by them."
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure,
still heart, and let there be for every pulse a
thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." ~ Konrad von
Gesner
"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
"But whether we have less or more, Always thank we God
there for." ~ Author Unknown
"Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with
thanksgiving."
~ (Colossians 4:2) Bible
"Forever on Thanksgiving Day, The heart will find the
pathway home." ~ Wilbur D. Nesbit
"Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to
express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the
moon at night." ~ Irving Berlin
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must
be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist
at all." ~ William Faulkner
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the
parent of all the others." ~ Cicero
"Gratitude is the heart's memory." ~ French Proverb
"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.
Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that
feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
~ Henry Van Dyke
"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."
~ Melody Beattie
"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." ~ White Eagle
"He who thanks but with the lips, Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving, Comes from the heart."
~ J.A. Shedd
"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." ~ Sir John Templeton
"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my
friends, the old and new." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I think that one of the things I'm most grateful for on
Thanksgiving is that, when the Lord was deciding who
would need help at this season and who would be in a
position to give help, he permitted me to be among the
givers." ~ Bill Gold
"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
"thank you," that would suffice." ~ Meister Eckhart
"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." ~
Alistair Cooke
"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." ~ W.J. Cameron
"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was
to commemorate Pearl Harbor." ~ Phyllis Diller
"My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her
house is a time of sorrow." ~ Rita Rudner
"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use
them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." ~ W.T.
Purkiser
"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with
thankfulness." ~ William Shakespeare
"On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit
down to dinner at the same moment - halftime." ~
Anonymous
"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence."
~ William Jennings Bryan
"One act of thanksgiving made when things go wrong is
worth a thousand when things go well." ~ Anonymous
"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an 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."
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"Praise God from whom all blessings flow..." ~ Unknown
"Real abundance is found when we join hands with those
we love."
~ Anonymous
"So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To
praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of
heart."
~ Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
"Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your
feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes,
believe in your own time and place. There is not, and
there never has been a better time, or a better place to
live in." ~ Phillips Brooks
"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." ~ W.J.
Cameron
"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
"Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must
touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for
blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!" ~ Will
Carleton
"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. Powel
"Thanksgiving is a circle of memories." ~ Anonymous
"Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time
to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short
memory." ~ Anonymous
"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." ~ Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson
"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a
blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving." ~
Merle Shain
"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
"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!"
~ Henry Ward Beecher
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day . . .
is the one day that is purely American." ~ O. Henry
"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact
gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude
is to touch Heaven." ~ Johannes A. Gaertner
"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?" ~ Erma Bombeck
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
~ Estonian proverb
"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and
reap with thanksgiving." ~ Kahlil Gibran
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
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you,"
that would suffice. ~Meister Eckhart
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
So once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
~John
Fitzgerald Kennedy
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!
~Henry
Ward Beecher
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.
~Alexander Pope
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? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on
Thanksgiving," 26 November 1981
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron
He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.
~J.A. Shedd
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
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.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are
consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This
is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck
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!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
~Irv Kupcinet
Thou hast given so much to me,
Give one thing more, - a grateful heart;
Not thankful when it pleaseth me,
As if Thy blessings had spare days,
But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.
~George Herbert
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! ~Henry Ward
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