Quotes of Thanksgiving - somelinesforyou

“ I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ”

- W. J. Cameron

“ On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ”

- William Jennings Bryan

“ 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? ”

- Erma Bombeck

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

- Irv Kupcinet

“ 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 is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ”

- Robert Caspar Lintner

“ Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ”

- E.P. Powell

“ Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ”

- Edward Sandford Martin

“ 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. ”

- Konrad von Gesner

“ The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ”

- H.U. Westermayer

“ Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ”

- Robert Caspar Lintner

“ A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. ”

- Kin Hubbard

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

- W.T. Purkiser

“ The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide. ”

- Stephen Evans

“ He had a face like a blessing. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity - deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ If it's true and all, we're thankful. ”

- Bobby Orr

“ Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else. ”

- Robert Thompson

“ Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God. ”

- John Pearson

“ I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ 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. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”

- Alistair Cooke

“ Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. ”

- Ayn Rand

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

- Rita Rudner

“ A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island. ”

- Johnny Carson

“ On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ”

- Unknown

“ Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. ”

- H. L. Mencken
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