Best 100 Thanksgiving Day Quotes and Sayings 2020
“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.”
Jeremy Taylor
“God is pleased with no music from below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.”
Robert Casper Lintner
“Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.”
Izaak Walton
“God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.”
John Baillie
“The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.”
Johannes A. Gaertner
“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”
Garrison Keillor
“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
Make sure that through your well-chosen quotes, you make your grandparents smile and feel blessed to have grandkids like you. Let them know how much fun they are and you realize their efforts and role in upbringing you. Your grandparents are the ones who give extra time and patience while dealing with you so by sharing these quotes with them on the National Grandparents Day, show gratitude and thankfulness towards them for being so patient with you. With Grandparent’s Day, you won’t be able to find the perfect day for the expression of your heartfelt emotions so grab the best quotes and sayings for your grandparents and make their day extra special by letting them know that their efforts on you didn’t go wasted and you know all they did for you.
On Gratitude and Giving Thanks
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.”
Konrad von Gesner
“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.”
Brother David Steindl-Rast
“Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise…then you will discover the fullness of your life.”
Estonian Proverb
“Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
Melody Beattie
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”Phillips Brooks
“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.”
W.J. Cameron
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
Gerald Good
“If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
Eugene Cloutier
“To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others.”
Willie Nelson
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
William Ward
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
Charles E. Jefferson
“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.”Donald Curtis
“It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.”
E.J. Conrad
“One distinguishing mark of an unregenerate man is ingratitude.”
Henry Clay
“Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?”
W.T. Purkiser
“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
Charles Spurgeon
“Before you go out into the world, wash your face in the clear crystal of praise. Bury each yesterday in the fine linen and spices of thankfulness.”
Elbert Hubbard
“I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.”
Seneca
“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”Phillips Brooks
“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.”
E.P. Powell
“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.”
Victor Hugo
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”
Frederick Keonig
“We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”
Albert Pine
“What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.”
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.”
On Food
Margaret Junkin Preston
“But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie;
Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin pie!”
Irv Kupcine
“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I love Thanksgiving turkey…it’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.”Kevin James
“Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants.”Erma Bombeck
“Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.”
Rita Rudner
“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”
Thanksgiving Day is celebrated to show gratitude to your loved ones for being a part of your life and making it beautiful by your meaningful contributions. By reading and sharing Thanksgiving Day Quotes and Sayings, you can allow yourself to focus on the positive aspects of your life and count your blessings instead of letting negativity affect you. So grab the best Thanksgiving sayings and show your gratitude to your friends, family members, and all other special people in your life and remind them the reason why this day needs to be celebrated.
History
Samuel Adams, First Official Thanksgiving Proclamation
“It is therefore recommended…to set apart Thursday the 18th 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.”
H.U. Westermayer
“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.”
Alexander Pope
“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.”
Jon Stewart
“I celebrated Thanksgiving the 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.”
Ellen Orleans
“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 America’s traditions tend to be overeating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it’s a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.”
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