Thanksgiving Holiday Quotes

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Melody Beattie

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.

John G. Shedd

Thanksgiving, Christian, Appreciation

"The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705, 2006.

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My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Rita Rudner

Funny, Thanksgiving, Mother

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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Maya Angelou

Birthday, Inspiring, Thanksgiving

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 29, 2013

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For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanksgiving, Song, Sweet

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Family, Thanksgiving, Food

1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.

Oprah Winfrey

Positive, Thank You, Thanksgiving

FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Oct 03, 2011

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

Thornton Wilder

Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

"How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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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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Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".

Jay Leno

Thanksgiving, Fun, Long

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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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I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

Ellen Orleans

Thanksgiving, Strong, Holiday

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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Irv Kupcinet

Thanksgiving, Optimistic, Turkeys

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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, Holiday, Emotional

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I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Thanksgiving, Mean, Opportunity

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God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

Edwin Percy Whipple

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Funny Thanksgiving

Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.195

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Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

Jim Gaffigan

Thanksgiving, People, Drunk

"Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

Margaret Cousins

Change, Thanksgiving, Thank You

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

Friedrich Koenig

Love, Life, Happiness

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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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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Friendship, Happiness, Happy

Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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