Thanksgiving Quotes - Page 14

• The difference between God and the Devil, is that God creates and organizes, while the whole study of the Devil is to convince children that light meat tastes good.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Light, Differences

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• But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!

  Margaret Junkin Preston

  Sweet, Lying, Pie

  Margaret Junkin Preston (1887). “Colonial Ballads, Sonnets, and Other Verse”

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• The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Gratitude, Mean, Humility

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• To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  Gratitude, Skills, Stories

  Stanley Hauerwas (2012). “Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir”, p.302, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.

  Unknown

  I Love You, Beauty, Love You

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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

  Mom, Drinking, Turkeys

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• We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Moments, Praise, Silent

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.993, Delphi Classics

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• Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives.

  Terry Taylor

  Thankful, Gratitude, Crazy

  Terry Lynn Taylor (1996). “Angel Days”, Ballantine Books

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• Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Children, War

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• One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.

  Charles Kelley

  Morning, Brother, Memories

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• Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

  John Henry Jowett

  Spiritual, Thankfulness, Virtue

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• For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.

  Jessica Simpson

  Sound

  "Jessica Simpson Making Tofurkey For Thanksgiving, Thanks To Fiance’s Healer" by Lesley Messer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2011.

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• What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.

  Richard Belzer

  Daughter, Dog, Grateful

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• It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

  George Washington

  Presidential, Duty To God, Founding Fathers Religion

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

  William Arthur Ward

  Gratitude, Thankfulness, Common

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• There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train.

  David Letterman

  New York, Turkeys, Cities

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• We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.

  Harry S. Truman

  Spiritual, Grateful, Blessing

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  "A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer".

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• God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

  Miley Cyrus

  Blessed, Successful, Blessing

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• There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

  Corey Feldman

  Turkeys, Way, Eating

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• Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Children, Santa, Able

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• I think I'm going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving, make her some organic sweet potato. I'm very excited! It's going to be a big day and my husband is in charge of the turkey - he's the chef of the family!

  Lily Aldridge

  Baby, Sweet, Husband

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

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• We must lengthen our stride and must do it now because we over ate and feel fat.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Fats, Stride, Feels

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• Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.

  George Washington

  God, Prayer, Grateful

  George Washington (1837). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. V. Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.119

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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, Morning, Fun

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