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Thanksgiving Day Quotes in English
- If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~ G.A. Johnston Ross
- O Lord that lends me life,
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. ~ William Shakespeare - None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~ Fred De Witt Van Amburgh
- Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel. ~ Author Unknown Unknown “Thanksgiving Day Quotes”
- The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~ Ted Allen
- And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks. ~ John Taylor
- The thing I’m most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~ Author Unknown “Thanksgiving Day Quotes”
- For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet…. Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~ Rebecca Harding Davis
- Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~ Aesop
- Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William Arthur Ward
- May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~ Grandpa Jones - I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. ~ Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
- Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~ Charles Lamb, 1821
- But whether we have less or more,
Always thank we God therefor. ~ Author Unknown “Thanksgiving Day Quotes” - Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~ William Shakespeare
- God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~ William A. Ward
- Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
- Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie
- Thanksgiving-day, I fear,
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
To thank the Lord for blessing o’er,
As for the sake of getting more! ~ Will Carleton - For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o’er life’s sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord! ~ Walt Mason
- It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. ~ James Smith
- When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep? ~ George Canning
- 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 is way too often. ~ Johnny Carson
- Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. ~ P. J. O’Rourke
- 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
- We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning. ~ Albert Barnes
- 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
- 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
- If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. ~ Robert Quillen
- Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ~ W.T. Purkiser
- To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others. ~ Eugene Cloutier
- Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever. ~ Albert Barnes
- Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. ~ Charles E. Jefferson
- 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
- One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude. ~ E. J. Conrad “Thanksgiving Day Quotes”
- 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 “Thanksgiving Day Quotes”
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