Happy Thanksgiving Quotes

If you're in a position where you can help other people, there is nothing better in life than helping other people. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

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 is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

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.

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.

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.'

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

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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.

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!

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?

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

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

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

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

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.

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

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

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

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.