Thanksgiving Day Quotes - Page 6

• I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Family, People, Faults

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.175, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

  Robert Frost

  Family, Break Up, Breakup

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• I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Reading, Scripture, Holy

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• When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.

  Willard Scott

  Dream, Watches, Want

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• If I were ever to go mad it would be on Thanksgiving Day, that day of guilt and grace when the family hangs upon you like an ax over a sacrificial victim, like the oven's heat on that poor bird.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Thanksgiving, Mad, Bird

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• Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.

  Wilbur D. Nesbit

  Thanksgiving, Home, Heart

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

  George Herbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• I make a special point of working on Thanksgiving Day. I have friends I go out with but I even make it plain to them. The standard reason for Thanksgiving doesn't mean nothing to me.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mean, Special, Reason

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears as much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.

  E. B. White

  Jobs, Fear, Party

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

  Harpo Marx

  Thanksgiving, Parades, Macy's

  Harpo Marx, Rowland Barber (2004). “Harpo Speaks!”, p.169, Hal Leonard Corporation

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Father, Dignity, Persons

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• The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also the Thomas Tank Engine balloon, and they even have the Ebola nurse balloon.

  David Letterman

  Gay, Ebola, Years

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• Gratitude is not a spiritual or moral dessert which we may take or push away according to the whims of the moment, and in either case without material consequences. Gratitude is the very bread and meat of spiritual and moral health, individually and collectively. What was the seed of disintegration that corrupted the heart of the ancient world beyond the point of divine remedy...? What was it but ingratitude?

  Noel 'Razor' Smith

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

  Rodney Atkins

  Anniversary, Thanksgiving, Morning

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• Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

  Charles Kingsley

  Hymns, Long, Singing

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writer" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 456, 1895.

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• The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm.

  Mark Twain

  Hard Times, Years, Two

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.170, eKitap Projesi

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• Once I got over the fact that my Latin teacher was a horse, we had a nice tour, though I was careful not to walk behind him. I'd done pooper-scooper patrol in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade a few times, and, I'm sorry, I did not trust Chiron's back the the way I trusted his front.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Horse, Sorry

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

  Mark Twain

  Food, Humble, Islands

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Character, Blessing

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• Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

  Mark Twain

  Humble, Turkeys, Giving

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 18, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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