Quotes about Thanksgiving

"Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!"

"I'm thankful for every moment."

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

"Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude."

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

"Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last."

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."

"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."

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

"My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch."

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."

"To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do."

"Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside."

"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."

"My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious."

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

"Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving."

"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."

"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor."

"Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ."

"If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more."

"Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it."

"I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable."

"That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!"

"When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'"

"On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been."

"It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day."

"Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him."

"Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another."

"From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea."

"In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us."