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1. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.”
– Nigel Hamilton

2. “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

3. “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

4. “He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.”
– J.A. Shedd

5. “Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.”
– Margaret

6. “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

7. “If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.”
– Ina Garten

8. “But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”
– Margaret Junkin Preston

9. “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

10. “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

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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

14. “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

15. “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” -Erma Bombeck

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen

19. “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

20. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser

21. “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

22. “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

23. “Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

24. “All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.”
– George W. Bush

25. “You shouldn’t just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.”
– Alcurtis Turner

26. “When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.”
– Sam Lefkowitz

27. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

28. “I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
– Craig Ferguson

29. “The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life.”
– Steve Goodier

30. “Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough

31. “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks. Among all the challenges that we face as people with hearing loss there are certainly brighter moments in every day – moments that deserve to be recorded in our Gratitude Journal.”
– Monique Hammond

32. “Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.”
– Tom Swyers

33. “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
– Amy Grant

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

35. “My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; the Campbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.”
– Douglas Conant

36. “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

37. “My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.”
– Katharine McPhee

38. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.”
– Joyce Giraud

39. “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

40. “An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

41. “Thanksgiving is America’s favorite holiday because it’s a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the ‘out years.’”
– David Ignatius

42. “But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!”
– Margaret Junkin Preston

43. “Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey — until Thanksgiving.”
– Mike Connolly

44. “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

45. “And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks.”
– John Taylor

46. “I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

47. “Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

48. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
– W.T. Purkiser

49. “If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.”
– Gerald Good

50. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

51. “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”
– William Blake

52. “Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

53. “It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.”
– Phyllis Diller

54. “The Thanksgiving tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?”
– Jim Gaffigan

55. “I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

56. “If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Someone needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself.”
– Mitch Hedberg

57. “Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

58. “Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”
– Rita Rudner

59. “You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

60. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.”
– W. Clement Stone

61. “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.”
– Amy Leigh Mercree

62. “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

63. “On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”
– William Jennings Bryan

64. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.”
– Joyce Giraud

65. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.”
– Willard Scott

66. “Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn’t have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship – all perks of adulthood.”
– Rosecrans Baldwin

67. “And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks.”
– John Taylor

68. “We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
– Thornton Wilder

69. “Thanksgiving creates abundance.”
– Ann Voskamp

70. “Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.”
– Augusten Burroughs

71. “When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.”
– Sam Lefkowitz

72. “Preparing and serving food had always been a joy, for it made her appreciate the abundance of the world.”
– Elizabeth Camden

73. “Family gathers to share good noise and good food. Gratitude abounds.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

74. “’So what do we do?’ We do what all families do. Grin, bear it, and pass the mashed potatoes.””
– Heather Brewer

75. “Thanksgiving – fall’s finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation.”
– Carew Papritz

76. “Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.”
– Eric Samuel Timm

77. “It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.”
– Lorelai Gilmore

78. “Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

79. “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.”
– Oscar Wilde

80. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day The heart will find the pathway home.”
– Wilbur D. Nesbit

81. “Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
– W.J. Cameron

82. “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

83. “I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.”
– Marcus Samuelsson

84. “Thanksgiving is America’s national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.”
– Michael Dresser

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

86. “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

87. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”
– Willie Nelson

88. “My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.”
– Henry David Thoreau

89. Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
– William Shakespeare

90. “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

91. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

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

93. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
– Dalai Lama

94. “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”
– Henry Van Dyke

95. “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.”
– Daniel Humm

96. “Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”
– Franz Grillparzer

97. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.”
– Robert Caspar Lintner

98. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
– Ernest Hemingway

99. “Once you start practicing being grateful and thankful for things, people, and events, you may notice that you start to attract more positive things, people, and events in your life.”
– Stephanie Conkle

100. “I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.”
– Charlie Brown

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We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education.
​​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. ​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.

I have decided to stick to love … Hate is too great a burden to bear.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live.​​
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
​- Martin Luther King Jr.​

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