Thanksgiving Greetings Quotes - Page 2

• Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.91, tredition

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• Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

  Henry Clay

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

  William Arthur Ward

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Thankfulness

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• The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Pearson Education

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• Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

  Erma Bombeck

  Thanksgiving, Sports, Football

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes". Book by Paula Munier, p. 67, September 1, 2004.

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• If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

  Frank A. Clark

  Motivational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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• You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

  Dylan Brody

  Thanksgiving, Wise, Native American

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• Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

  W. Clement Stone

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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• 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

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• 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.

  Conrad Gessner

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Song

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• Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thanksgiving, Years, Thankfulness

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• Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

  Henry Jacobsen

  Thanksgiving, Difficult Times, Praise

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• Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

  Melody Beattie

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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• 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

  Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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• It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

  George Washington

  Thanksgiving, Presidential, Duty To God

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

  John Taylor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankfulness

  John Taylor (1872). “Works of John Taylor, the Water-Poet. [Reprints of 21 separately issued pieces.] Edited by C. Hindley. L.P.”

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• Reflect upon your present blessings

  Charles Dickens

  Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.211

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• It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

  Alistair Cooke

  Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine

  Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!

  David Letterman

  Thanksgiving, Dog, Fun

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• Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.226, 谷月社

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• For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

  Storm Jameson

  Thanksgiving, Religion, Thankfulness

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• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

  James Russell Lowell

  Good Morning, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

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• I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elbert Hubbard (1916). “The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard”

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