Thanksgiving Quotes And Sayings For Gratitude

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“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.”
– Kahlil Gibran

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

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

“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

“With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, / England mourns for her dead across the sea.”
– Laurence Binyon

“Let us give thanks to God above,
– Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer

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

“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments.”
– Mark Twain

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

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

“It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.”
– Michael Chabon

“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

“Coexistence… what the farmer does with the turkey – until Thanksgiving.”
– Mike Connolly

“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
– Mike Norton

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

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

“During the “first Thanksgiving” at Plymouth, Wampanoag Indians – including a Patuxet Indian named Squanto – helped teach Pilgrims how to farm, fish, and hunt and shared the bounty of that first feast. A TRADITION THAT CONTINUES TODAY AND JESUS AND 9/11.”
– Patton Oswalt

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