Quotes and Sayings About Thanksgiving
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Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
-- A. J. McLeanSource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 -
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
-- Ace Antonio Hall -
God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
-- Addison Mizner -
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
-- Algernon Charles SwinburneSource : "The Garden of Proserpine" l. 81 (1866)
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'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
-- Alice Walker -
It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!
-- Alicia Silverstone -
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 CookeSource : Alistair Cooke (2015). “Talk About America: 1951–1968”, p.15, Open Road Media
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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 -
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
-- Ann Voskamp -
And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.
-- Ann Voskamp -
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I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!
-- Anne Frank -
I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
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 -
Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.
-- Barbara BoxerSource : "Jews in the Senior Chamber" by Dan Klein, www.tabletmag.com. October 12, 2010.
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I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
-- Ben Stein -
Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
-- Betty SmithSource : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
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I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.
-- Bill Cosby -
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The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
-- Bob SchiefferSource : "Schieffer: More Than Just a Game" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. February 7, 2010.
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On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
-- Bobby Jindal -
There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.
-- Brian Andreas -
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 -
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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 -
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