An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
- William Jennings Bryan
Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.
- Mike Connolly
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
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
- E.P. Powell
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
- JF Kennedy
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 Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.
- Edward Sandford Martin
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
- W.J. Cameron
He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart.
- J.A. Shedd
Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.
- J. Robert Moskin
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.
- Theodore Roosevelt
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Thornton Wilder
Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.
- Ray Stannard Baker
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
- Joseph Auslander
Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.
- Michael Dresser
Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.
- Wilbur Nesbit
We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
- Unknown
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.
- Johannes A. Gaertner
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.
- Cicero
Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.
- Unknown
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
- Izaak Walton
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
- A.W. Tozer
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
- Aesop
