Thanksgiving Day Quotes

38 Thanksgiving Day quotes by 34 unique authors

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. — Irv Kupcinet
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
He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. — Harpo Marx
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
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
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
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
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
Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving. — Seneca the Younger
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
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. — H. L. Mencken
Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. — Ronald Reagan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I'm thankful for every moment. — Al Green
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. — Franz Grillparzer
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. — O. Henry
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. — Kin Hubbard
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. — Storm Jameson
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: