Day After Thanksgiving Quotes:

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Friendship, Thank You, Basketball, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thank You

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

- Melody Beattie

source: Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

topic: Happiness, Thank You, Thanksgiving, Joy And Gratitude, I Am Thankful

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

- W. T. Purkiser

topic: Thanksgiving, Blessing, Use, Being Blessed, I Am Thankful

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

- John F. Kennedy

topic: Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

- Bill Gates

topic: Friday, Monday, Ideas, Day After Thanksgiving, Funny Happy Thanksgiving

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

topic: Friendship, Happiness, Happy, Making Friends, Bff

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Family, Food, Forgiving, Hunger For Food, Yummy

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Thanksgiving, Thank You, Gratitude, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

- Katharine McPhee

topic: Memories, Decorating, Day After Thanksgiving

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.

- Aesop

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Spiritual, I Am Thankful, Spiritual Gratitude

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Grateful, I Am Thankful, Inspirational Thanksgiving

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

topic: Thanksgiving, Holiday, Emotional, Day After Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.

- Kevin James

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Thanksgiving, Good Day, Men, Day After Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

- Irv Kupcinet

topic: Thanksgiving Day, Optimist, Persons, Optimism And Pessimism, Optimism In Life

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Gratitude, Heart, Parent, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thankful Heart

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

- William Arthur Ward

topic: Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thank You, Social Good, Joy And Gratitude

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.

- Elie Wiesel

topic: Gratitude, Mean, Night, Day After Thanksgiving, Thankful Thanksgiving

Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.

- Rita Rudner

source: FaceBook post by Rita Rudner from Nov 13, 2012

topic: Sarcastic, Mother, Sarcasm, Day After Thanksgiving, Funny Thanksgiving Day

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

topic: Food, Mean, Talking, Wishbones, Inspirational Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Thanksgiving, Years, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving Day, Day After Thanksgiving

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

topic: Mom, Drinking, Funny Thanksgiving, Kitties, Thanksgiving Day

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

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

topic: Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Doctrine, Cranberries, Day After Thanksgiving

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Funny, Thanksgiving, Land, Inspirational Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day