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Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.
Oct 1, 2025
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.
I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.
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.
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with gourmet status.
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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.
Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
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.
I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.
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.
I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
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!
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'
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.
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.
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!
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 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.
It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.
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.
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.
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.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.
Reflect upon your present blessings
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'
Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.