Thanksgiving Thanks Quotes - Page 4

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

George W. Bush

Thanksgiving, Blessing, America

Bush's Thanksgiving Proclamation, www.foxnews.com. November 25, 2004.

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God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

Addison Mizner

Inspirational, Funny, Friendship

"The Complete Cynic".

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Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'.

Craig Ferguson

Funny, Humor, Night

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Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Thanksgiving, Blessing, Thankful To God

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Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

David Letterman

Thanksgiving, Mom, Drinking

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

Henry Van Dyke

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Kindness

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

Henry Jacobsen

Thanksgiving, Difficult Times, Praise

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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

"How to Write a Gratitude Speech" by Peggy Epstein, bizfluent.com. September 26, 2017.

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

Charles Dickens

Inspirational, Happiness, Thanksgiving

Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz”, p.172

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Alice Walker

Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

William Arthur Ward

Thank You, Thanksgiving, God

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If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

W. Clement Stone

Thanksgiving, Thankful, Gratitude

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I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety.

Henry David Thoreau

Thanksgiving, Grateful, Existence

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.373, Penguin

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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Alice Walker

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

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Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

Jim Gaffigan

Thanksgiving, People, Drunk

"Beyond the Pale". Live album by Jim Gaffigan, www.npr.org. February 7, 2006.

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

Arthur Guiterman

Thanksgiving, Song, Heart

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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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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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Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Melody Beattie

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Fullness Of Life

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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!

Henry Ward Beecher

Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you.

Ralph Marston

Friendship, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving, Holiday, Two

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When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

George Canning

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Thankful

George Canning (1826). “Poetical Works ...: Comprising the Whole of the Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems”, p.26

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