Thanksgiving Quotes - Page 6

• My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.

  David

  Religious, Heart, People

  King David of Israel, “Psalm 57: I Will Cry Unto God Most High”

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• This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Gratitude, Strong

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon “Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 19: 1873”, Lulu.com

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• With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children, England mourns for her dead across the sea.

  Laurence Binyon

  Mother, Children, Sea

  The Times 21 Sept. 1914, "For the Fallen"

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• Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.

  James Patterson

  Christian, Military, Alex

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• Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.

  Sandra Lee

  Christmas, Stressed, Buying

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• The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

  Ted Allen

  Lying, Home, Funny Things

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• Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Holiday, Use

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• We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  America, People, Age

  "In Giving Thanks, Some Remember the Indians" by Georgia Dullea, www.nytimes.com. November 24, 1988.

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• If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

  Ina Garten

  Thinking, Dinner, Chickens

  "'Easy' Thanksgiving With The Barefoot Contessa". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org.

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• It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

  John Hughes

  Kids, Sitting, Elbows

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• 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!

  David Letterman

  Dog, Fun, Cat

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• I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

  Todd Barry

  Chickens, Chicken Nuggets, Fingers

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• There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

  O. Henry

  One Day, Biscuits, Funny Thanksgiving

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• It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Christian, Being Thankful, Feelings

  Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

  Ina Garten

  Holiday, Adore

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

  Storm Jameson

  Religion, Thankfulness, May

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• I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Good Morning, Thank You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Lectures and Orations”, p.103

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• Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

  Richard Roeper

  Christmas, Looks, Half

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• As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Sacrifice, Kuwait, Iraq

  "Honor Sacrifice by Supporting Vets" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2012.

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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

  Turkeys, Doctrine, Boards

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

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• Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

  Ted Allen

  Waiting, Sound, Guests

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

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Holiday, Thinking, Cities

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• My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

  Ted Allen

  Vegetables, Years, Trying

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

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• Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Patient, Ends

  Alexander Pope, “Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book”

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor... beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed

  George Washington

  Wise, Grateful, Blessing

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

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