Thanksgiving Day is regarded as an important holiday as Thanksgiving is about showing one’s gratitude for the blessings. Below are classical Thanksgiving Quotes, Thanksgiving SMS Collection, popular Thankgiving Sayings and Thanksgiving bless.
“Happy Thanksgiving”
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“On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment – halftime.”
Unknown
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“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”
William Jennings Bryan
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“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
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“Forever on Thanksgiving Day, The heart will find the pathway home.”
Wilbur D. Nesbit
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
Melody Beattie
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“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
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“I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy.”
Anne Frank
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“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
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“Got no check books, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks – I got the sun in the mornin’ and the moon at night.”
Irving Berlin
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“Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.”
Basil Carpenter
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“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”
Aesop Fables
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“Gratitude is the heart’s memory.”
French Proverb
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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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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“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
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“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”
Cicero
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“Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.”
Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy
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“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
Estonian proverb
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“Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience.”
Sadi The Gulistan
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“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
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“God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.”
Ethel Watts Mumford
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“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
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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
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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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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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
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“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
W.J. Cameron
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“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
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“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
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“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
Thornton Wilder
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.”
Author Unknown
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“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
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“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
Cicero
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“Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.”
Unknown
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“Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.”
Michael Dresser
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“Grace isn’t a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It’s a way to live.”
Jackie Windspear
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“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
Izaak Walton
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“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
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“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart”
Seneca
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“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
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“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.”
Unknown
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“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward
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“Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.”
Charles Lamb
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“But whether we have less or more,
Always thank we God therefor.”
Unknown
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“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.”
William Shakespeare
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“God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’ ”
William A. Ward
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“Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.”
Ambrose Bierce
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“Thanksgiving-day, I fear,
If one the solemn truth must touch,
Is celebrated, not so much
To thank the Lord for blessing o’er,
As for the sake of getting more!”
Will Carleton
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“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!”
Unknown
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“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
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“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
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“I love Thanksgiving turkey. It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“For hearts that are kindly, with virtue and peace, and not seeking blindly a hoard to increase; for those who are grieving o’er life’s sordid plan; for souls still believing in heaven and man; for homes that are lowly with love at the board; for things that are holy, I thank thee, O Lord!”
Walt Mason
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“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.”
James Smith
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“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”
George Canning
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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
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“Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.”
P. J. O’Rourke
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“Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for – annually, not oftener – if they had succeeded in exterminating their neighbors, the Indians, during the previous twelve months instead of getting exterminated by their neighbors, the Indians. Thanksgiving Day became a
habit, for the reason that in the course of time, as the years drifted on, it was perceived that the exterminating had ceased to be mutual and was all on the white man’s side, consequently on the Lord’s side; hence it was proper to thank the Lord for it and extend the usual annual compliments.”
Mark Twain
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“He who thanks but with the lips
Thanks but in part;
The full, the true Thanksgiving
Comes from the heart.”
J. A. Shedd
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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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
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“We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.”
Albert Barnes
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“Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.”
Robert Casper Lintner
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“Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.”
Apostle Paul
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“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 off’rings, and a thankful strain.”
Alexander Pope
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“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
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“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
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“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.”
Konrad von Gesner
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“What we’re 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
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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
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“Thank you, dear God
For all You have given me,
For all You have taken away from me,
For all You have left me.”
Anonymous
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“Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise; be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good.”
Psalm 100:4
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Frank A. Clark
“If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.”
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“It is therefore recommended… to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.”
Samuel Adams, First Official Thanksgiving Proclamation
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“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise… then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
Brother David Steindl-Rast
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“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
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“Praise now is one of the great duties of the redeemed. It will be their employment for ever.”
Albert Barnes
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“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.”
Charles E. Jefferson
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“God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.”
Jeremy Taylor
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“One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude.”
E. J. Conrad
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“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
Kahlil Gibran
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“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.”
Sir John Templeton
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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
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“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
Jay Leno
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“Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.”
George Whitefield
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Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, “Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England.”
Jay Leno
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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
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“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
WT Purkiser
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“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
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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, Jr.
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“It’s better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.”
Marilu Henner
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“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
Ayn Rand
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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
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“Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn’t learned to be content we will not be thankful for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better.”
Robert Flatt
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“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
RV Kupcinet
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“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.”
Meister Eckhart
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“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
William Faulkner
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“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”
Charles Dickens
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“Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God.”
White Eagle
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“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”
Henry Ward Beecher
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“It’s a thanksgiving to God. It’s something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn’t ready for it. So I did it myself.”
Aaron Neville
