More Thanksgiving Quotations

by allinspiration.com

Here is another collection of thanksgiving quotations and sayings to touch the essence of gratitude and saying thank you.

“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

“Our rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labor when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.”
– Alexander Pope

“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 Swimburne

“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

“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

“Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.”
– Ann Voskamp

“Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.”
– Ann Voskamp

“I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I’ve seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.”
– Ann Voskamp

“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

“Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust – to really believe.”
– Ann Voskamp

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.”
– Bertrand Willbertforce

“As a kid, I was always mad – just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, while the men were watching football. For one, I don’t want to cook, and for two, I hate football. I was stuck in the middle.”
– Beth Ditto

“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

“I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.”
– Carol Alt

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– Charles Bukowski

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”
– Charles Dickens

“This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.”
– Charles Lamb

“A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.”
– Cicero

“My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it’s just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.”
– Cindy Margolis

“Nothing purchased can come close to the renewed sense of gratitude for having family and friends. ”
– Courtland Milloy

“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.”
– David Grayson

“Strength, rest, guidance, grace, help, sympathy, love – all from God to us!! What a list of blessings!”
– E. Stenbock

“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

“Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow.”
– Edward Sanford Martin

“God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.”
– Edwin Percy Whipple

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

“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

“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.”
– Frank A. Clark

“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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