Thanksgiving quotes

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming!
– Joseph B. Wirthlin

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
– Storm Jameson

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

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau

I’ve seen terrorism close up, but I don’t live in a state of terror at all. I’m comfortable going to the Manhattan Thanksgiving Day Parade, the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, Times Square on New Years Eve. For perspective, the world today is a safer place than it was during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Airlift, World War II.
– Douglas Brunt

I’m thankful for every moment.
– Al Green

My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.
Billy Crystal

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

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

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
– John Clayton

If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
– Tony Snow

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
– William Arthur Ward

The more I come to recognize my story’s place in God’s grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.
– Gloria Gaither

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake

Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
– Lawrence Welk

Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
– Evan Davis

You can’t have Thanksgiving and not just be like, ‘All right, where’s the football.’ It’s been branded very, very well. You can’t have one without the other at this point.
– Andy Grammer

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

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we’re hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.
– Bob Wells

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

There are three things that people pick up on the instant they walk into your home on Thanksgiving. They will be able to feel the human energy. They’ll smell the food. And they will see, instantly, the table.
– Danny Meyer

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I’m gonna do it, and I’ll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn’t doing it. But very seldom does that happen.
– Amy Sedaris

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

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.
Charles Spurgeon

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

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.
– Jennifer Granholm

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

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

The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving. You’re not really invited to the big dance. It’s still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.
– Hank Azaria

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.
– Marc Forgione

I would love four children because I have a very small family, so I want those big Thanksgiving dinners.
– Chrissy Teigen

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

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

Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
– Barry Ritholtz

My mother loved entertaining, and I’ve followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.
Joan Rivers

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman,’ but on Thanksgiving you’re putting on a show!
– Ted Allen