Thanksgiving Quotes - Page 11

• 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, Song, Heart

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• Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

  Ace Antonio Hall

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• Save a life this Thanksgiving, and join me in starting a new tradition by adopting a turkey instead of eating one through Farm Sanctuary's Adopt-A-Turkey Project.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Turkeys, Sanctuary, Tradition

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• He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

  Harpo Marx

  Parades, Macy's, Like Something

  Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.169, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

  Usain Bolt

  Gratitude, Support, Guy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  Vin Diesel

  Thank God, Encounters, Fans

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• Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Good Life, Rain

  "Leaving Home". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1987.

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• Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

  Charles Kingsley

  Self, Excellence, Virtue

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Town and Country Sermons: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.162, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Positive, Thank You

  Dalai Lama (1994). “The Path to Enlightenment”, p.105, Shambhala

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• None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

  Harvey Mackay

  Thank You, Understanding, Helping

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• The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Meaningful, Gratitude, Grateful

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• There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Being Thankful, Sin

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• I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Football, Humor

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• Gratitude is heaven itself.

  William Blake

  Gratitude, Heaven

  Gerda S. Norvig, William Blake (1993). “Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress”, p.88, Univ of California Press

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• It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own, gifts which come direct from God. It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Gratitude, Blessed, Taken

  "Sermons".

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• I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Holiday, Two, Importance

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• 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 th

  Walter Mason Camp

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Believe

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• I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

  Robert Breault

  Pie, Knowing, Taste

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• Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

  Owen Feltham

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

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• There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation, and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. But if they think marshmallows and sweet potatoes are delicious, they're going to burn. That is sure and positive.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Sweet, Blessing, Opportunity

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• I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

  Carol Alt

  Couple, Wine, Drunk

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

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• [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

  Robin Williams

  Heart, Family And Friends, Alive

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• You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

  Jay Leno

  Too Much, Funny Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving

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• I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

  Richie Sambora

  Sweet, Next Day, Long

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• Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

  Tom Robbins

  Turkeys, Monument, Boomers

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.24, Bantam

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