Thanksgiving Day Quotes And Sayings For A Day Of Appreciation

by allinspiration.com

“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!”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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!”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”
– Horace

“I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It’s the only holiday I insist on making myself.”
– Ina Garten

“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
– Ina Garten

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Got no check books, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks — I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.”
– Irving Berlin

“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
– Izaak Walton

“He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart”
– J. A. Shedd

“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”
– Jackie Windspear

“Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.”
– James Patterson

“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.”
– James Smith

“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.”
– Jennifer M. Granholm

“God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.”
– Jeremy Taylor

“I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas – that’s my favorite of all!”
– Joe Nichols

“If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
– Johannes A. Gaertner

“Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.”
– John Clayton

“Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.”
– John Clayton

“Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.”
– John Clayton

“Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.”
– John Clayton

“There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.”
– John Clayton

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope or fear;
But, grateful, take the good I find,
The best of now and here.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

“It’s like being at the kids‘ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there.”
– John Hughes

“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.”
– Jon Stewart

“Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.”
– Joseph Auslander

“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.”
– Katharine Mcphee

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

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