Thanksgiving Sayings On Being Grateful
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“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
– Ina Garten
“I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It’s the only holiday I insist on making myself.”
– 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
“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
“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
“Something I didn’t even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home… without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.”
– Jesse Tyler Ferguson
“When I walk through an airport and people go, ‘You’re not fat!’ I’m like, ‘Thanks. That’s great. Good to know I’m not fat today! Thank you!’”
– Jessica Simpson
“When I walk through an airport and people go, ‘You’re not fat!’ I’m like, ‘Thanks. That’s great. Good to know I’m not fat today! Thank you!’”
– Jessica Simpson
“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
“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
“If you say I’m great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?”
– Keith Richards
“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
“The folks in Mississippi are saying, ‘Thank God for Texas.’”
– Kinky Friedman
“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
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