Thanksgiving Quotes And Sayings For Gratitude

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“Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h’ors d’ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.”
– Paul Rudnick

“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

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

“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new. Shall I not call God The beautiful, who daily showth himself so to me in his gifts.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”
– Rita Rudner

“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

“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don’t ever really get stressed out about the food.”
– Sandra Lee

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”
– Seneca

“I always think it’s funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians.
– Sherman Alexie

“Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.”
– Stephen Evans

“Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.”
– Stephen Evans

“The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook, chop, braise and blanch. Then it’s gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sort of in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.”
– Ted Allen

“My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.”
– Ted Allen

“Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!”
– Ted Allen

“I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.”
– Todd Barry

“The value we place on what we’ve been given correlates to our depth of gratitude for it.”
– Todd Stocker

“Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer’s love.
– Tom Robbins

“If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”
– Tony Snow

“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.”
– Victor Hugo

“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.”
– Victor Hugo

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W. T. Purkiser

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– W.T. Purkiser

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser

“Here in Britain, of course, it’s Thank Fuck We Got Those Weird Jesus Bastards On The Boat Day”
– Warren Ellis

“The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.”
– Warren W. Wiersbe

“Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.”
– White Eagle

“May not and ought not the children of these fathers rightly say: “Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness but they cried unto the Lord, and He heard their voice, and looked on their adversity, &c. Let them therefore praise the Lord, because He is good, and His mercies endure forever. Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, show how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor. When they wandered in the; desert wilderness out of the way, and found no city to dwell in, both hungry, and thirsty, their soul was overwhelmed in them. Let them confess before the Lord His loving kindness, and His wonderful works before the sons of men.”
– William Bradford

“Lord, for the erring thought
Not into evil wrought:
Lord, for the wicked will
Betrayed and baffled still:
For the heart from itself kept,
Our thanksgiving accept.”
– William Dean Howells

“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
– William Shakespeare

“Dear Lord,” began Randy, who paused for long enough that Tristan sneaked an eye open to look at him. His saw his mother’s cheek twitch with what he thought might be apprehension. “We are so grateful to be gathered here today with our family, and the family of our brother’s homosexual boyfriend, and our new little goth friend who has a gay dad, whatever the heck that is all about. We’d like to say we’re grateful this year for condoms, lube, and Ellen Degeneres, and for those guys on Queer Eye…”
– Z.A. Maxfield

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