Thanksgiving Quotes

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.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

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.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

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

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

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

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

Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

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.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

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

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

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.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

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

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

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

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.

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

I'm thankful for every moment.

Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it.

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

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.