🍁Happy Thanksgiving🍁 Welcome to The Quote Garden! celebrating 16 years online 1998-2014 🍆🌽🍇🍗🍰🍞🍲🍨🍓🍌🍅 The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer 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 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, The First Thanksgiving As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy Remember Gods 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 Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and offrings, and a thankful strain. ~Alexander Pope What were really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, No One Diets on Thanksgiving, 26 November 1981 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 was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ~Irv Kupcinet Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, — a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. ~George Herbert The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! ~Henry Ward Beecher Some hae meat and canna eat, - And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit. ~Robert Burns 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 Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? ~John Greenleaf Whittier 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 There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry 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 (David Grayson) Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. ~Alice W. Brotherton On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment — halftime. ~Author Unknown 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 On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ~William Jennings Bryan It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast. ~W.J. Cameron Lord, tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And givst me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart. ~Robert Herrick Thanksgiving is Americas 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 D. Nesbit Grace isnt a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. Its a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Native American Saying 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 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 Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey — until Thanksgiving. ~Mike Connolly Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory. ~Author Unknown God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. ~Izaak Walton I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the history I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream Americas traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose its a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all. ~Ellen Orleans Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James 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 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. ~Phillips Brooks Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. ~Seneca All that we behold is full of blessings. ~William Wordsworth For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make. ~Odell Shepard Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. ~G.A. Johnston Ross O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. ~William Shakespeare None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. ~Fred De Witt Van Amburgh Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they dont unravel. ~Author Unknown The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. ~Ted Allen And though I ebb in worth, Ill flow in thanks. ~John Taylor The thing Im most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long? ~Rebecca Harding Davis Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ~Aesop Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! ~Grandpa Jones I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. ~Charles Lamb, 1821 But whether we have less or more, Always thank we God therefor. ~Author Unknown Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. ~William Shakespeare God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you? ~William A. Ward Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversary.
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