Thanksgiving Quotes

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By englightenedsoul

Thanksgiving Quotes

  • 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.
  • So once in every year we throng
    Upon a day apart,
    To praise the Lord with feast and song
    In thankfulness of heart.
  • As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. 
  • Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.  
  • Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. 
  • Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
  • 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.  
  • Ah! on Thanksgiving day....
    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,
    And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.
  • 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.
  • On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime.

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  • On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
  • Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.
  • A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
  • Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
  • What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
  • The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.
  • Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving
  • A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
  • My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
  • Gratitude consists of being more aware of what you have, than what you don’t.
  • 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.
  • Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
  • Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks.
  • Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Thanksgiving turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family

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Comments On Thanksgiving Quotes

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sunforged 20 months ago

My favorite Thanksgiving quote:

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Thanksgiving turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family

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englightenedsoul Hub Author 20 months ago

Now it has become my favorite too. I am including it in my hub. Thanks for sharing!!

Jane@CM profile image

Jane@CM 20 months ago

A nice selection of quotes.

stephhicks68 profile image

stephhicks68 Level 7 Commenter 18 months ago

Great collection - Happy Thanksgiving

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englightenedsoul Hub Author 18 months ago

Thanks so much Stephhicks. Happy Thanksgiving to you as well!!

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