Thanksgiving Day Quotes And Sayings For A Day Of Appreciation

by allinspiration.com

“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.”
– Kin Hubbard

“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.”
– Konrad Von Gesner

“Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.”
– Kurt Busch

“I think I’m going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I’m very excited! It’s going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey – he’s the chef of the family!”
– Lily Aldridge

“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”
– Margaret Junkin Preston

“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year‘s Day.”
– Marilu Henner

“Now thank we all our God, With hearts and hands and voices;
Who wondrous things hath done, In whom this world rejoices.
Who, from our mother’s arms, Hath led us on our way,
With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.”
– Martin Rinkart

“If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is ‘thank you‘, that would suffice.”
– Meister Eckhart

“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”
– Merle Shain

“I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.”
– Michael Symon

“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can’t figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don’t deserve to be an owner.”
– Michael Symon

“Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy…? What was it but ingratitude?”
– Noel Smith

“There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.”
– O. Henry

“For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.”
– Odell Shepard

“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.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“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.”
– Phillips Brooks

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good…”
– Psalm 100:4

“Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.”
– Psalm 150:6

“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.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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!”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year – and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.”
– Ray Stannard Baker

“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
– Richard Roeper

“I’ve spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I’m happy.”
– Richie Sambora

“Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.”
– Robert Caspar Lintner

“Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.”
– Robert Casper Lintner

“Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.”
– Robert Moskin

“If you count all your assets, you always show a profit.”
– Robert Quillen

“Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience.”
– Sadi, The Gulistan

“It is therefore recommended… to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”
– Samuel Adams, First Official Thanksgiving Proclamation

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