Thanksgiving Quotes

Thanksgiving

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day —Irv Kupcinet

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? —Erma Bombeck

Gobble 'til you wobble!

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action —W.J. Cameron

Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. —Edward Sandford Martin

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

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year it way too often. —Johnny Carson

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment—halftime

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures —Thornton Wilder

Forever on Thanksgiving Day / The heart will find the pathway home —Wilber D. Nesbit

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day —Robert Caspar Lintner

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty —Michael Dresser

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues —Cicero

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey—until Thanksgiving. —Mike Connolly
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. —Kevin James

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart —Seneca

O Lord that lends me life / Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness —William Shakespeare

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel.

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?" —William A. Ward

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