Good Thanksgiving Quotes

Thanks are the highest form of thought.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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

Rita Rudner

Funny, Thanksgiving, Mother

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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

William Jennings Bryan

Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving

William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1909). “Speeches of William Jennings Bryan”

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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Seneca the Younger

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

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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.

Alistair Cooke

Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine

Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media

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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.

Albert Schweitzer

Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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

Albert Schweitzer

Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

"A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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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.

Friedrich Koenig

Love, Life, Happiness

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Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Inspiring, Thankful

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

W. T. Purkiser

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude

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Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Maya Angelou

Birthday, Inspiring, Thanksgiving

FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 29, 2013

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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, Holiday, Emotional

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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

Thanksgiving, Food, Mean

Erma Bombeck (2013). “Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist”, p.271, Open Road Media

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

Irv Kupcinet

Thanksgiving, Optimistic, Turkeys

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He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.

John G. Shedd

Thanksgiving, Christian, Appreciation

"The Yale Book of Quotations". Book by Fred R. Shapiro, p. 705, 2006.

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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.

W. T. Purkiser

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

Mike Connolly

Thanksgiving, Vegetarianism, Turkeys

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Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

Phillips Brooks

Thanksgiving, Believe, Eye

Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: The candle of the Lord, and other sermons”

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Heart

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Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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

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Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

William Arthur Ward

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Thankfulness

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A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt,Oratio Pro Cnæo Plancio, XXXIII, p. 336-37, 1922.

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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Oscar Wilde

Family, Thanksgiving, Food

1893 Lady Caroline. A Woman of No Importance, act 2.

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Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Happiness, Thanksgiving, Thank You

Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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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

Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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