As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
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.
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.
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
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?
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
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.
Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
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