Thanksgiving Quotes

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

I see the glass half full and thank God for what I have.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

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.

Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

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

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.

Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.

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

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

All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

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

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

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.

There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

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

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.

You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.

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

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!

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

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

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

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

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 may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

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.

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.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

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.

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.