Thanksgiving Quotes - Page 2

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

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

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

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!

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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

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.

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.

Thankfulness is not something God gives us. It is not a spiritual gift and it is not a spiritual fruit. We can receive God's peace, joy and love, but thankfulness is something that we give to Godand to others. It is a choice that we make. Let us thank Him today with songs of celebration, hearts of strong devotion and acts of admiration.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.