Thanksgiving Day Quotes
38 Thanksgiving Day quotes by 34 unique authors
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
— Irv Kupcinet
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I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn…
— Rodney Atkins
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He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
— Harpo Marx
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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.…
— Phillips Brooks
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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…
— O. Henry
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We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown…
— Abraham Lincoln
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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…
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one…
— Samuel Adams
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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
— Seneca the Younger
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I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
— H. L. Mencken
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Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.
— Ronald Reagan
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Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the…
— Will Carleton
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It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving…
— Cornelius Plantinga
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Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him…
— Charles Kingsley
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But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking,…
— Paul the Apostle
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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
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Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I'm thankful for every moment.
— Al Green
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Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
— Franz Grillparzer
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
— O. Henry
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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
— Kin Hubbard
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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
— Storm Jameson
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A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.
— Mary Karr
Who Wrote These Thanksgiving Day Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 38 Thanksgiving Day Quotes, led by these top contributors: