Browsing Topic Best Thanksgiving Holiday Quotes

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.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

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

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

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

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.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

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

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.

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?

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

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

I love Thanksgiving turkey… It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.

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.

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

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

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.

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

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.

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.

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.

My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: The turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; the Campbell’s green bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.

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.

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

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

We’re having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we’re having a swan. You get more stuffing

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