Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
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.
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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.
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
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.
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.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.
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.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.
Reflect upon your present blessings
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.
When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat!
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
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.
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
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