Famous Thanksgiving Quotes

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
By W. J. Cameron on Action

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
By Rita Rudner on Cooking

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
By William Jennings Bryan on Dependence

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?
By Erma Bombeck on Diets

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
By Irv Kupcinet on Diets

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.
By Apostle Paul on Ephesians 5:3,4

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.
By Johnny Carson on Family

Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends.
By Courtland Milloy on Family and Friends

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.
By Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friends

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.
By Robert Casper Lintner on God

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!
By Henry Ward Beecher on God's Bounty

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.
By E.P. Powell on Gratitude

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
By John Fitzgerald Kennedy on Gratitude

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
By Edward Sandford Martin on Gratitude

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing — a grateful heart!
By George Herbert on Gratitude

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.
By Konrad von Gesner on Heart

Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the pathway home.
By Wilbur D. Nesbit on Home

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.
By H.U. Westermayer on Pilgrims

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
By Meister Eckhart on Prayer

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.
By Henry Ward Beecher on Pride

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin pie!
By Margaret Junkin Preston on Pumpkin Pie

It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful "n general."It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
By Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. on Thanfulness

We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.
By Albert Barnes on Thankfulness

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
By Ayn Rand on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
By Robert Caspar Lintner on 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
By Phillips Brooks on Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only come once a year.
By P. J. O'Rourke on Thanksgiving Day

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing.
By George Carlin on Turkey

Coexistence is what the farmer does with the turkey until Thanksgiving.
By Mike Connolly on Turkey