Holidays: Thanksgiving Titles | Quotes | Poem | Card | Definitions

"Forever on Thanksgiving Day, The heart will find the pathway home." ~ Wilbur D. Nesbit

"Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night." ~ Irving Berlin

"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all." ~ William Faulkner

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." ~ Cicero

"Gratitude is the heart's memory." ~ French Proverb

"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

"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

"Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God." ~ White Eagle

"He who thanks but with the lips, Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving, Comes from the heart." ~ J.A. Shedd

"How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people." ~ Sir John Templeton

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think that one of the things I'm most grateful for on Thanksgiving is that, when the Lord was deciding who would need help at this season and who would be in a position to give help, he permitted me to be among the givers." ~ Bill Gold

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice."  ~ Meister Eckhart

"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

"It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for.  He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire.  Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient.  But a thankful heart hath a continual feast." ~ W.J. Cameron

"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor." ~ Phyllis Diller

"My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow." ~ Rita Rudner

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving." ~ W.T. Purkiser

"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness." ~ William Shakespeare

"On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime." ~ Anonymous

"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence." ~ William Jennings Bryan

"One act of thanksgiving made when things go wrong is worth a thousand when things go well." ~ Anonymous

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an 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

"Praise God from whom all blessings flow..." ~ Unknown

"Real abundance is found when we join hands with those we love."
~ Anonymous

"So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart." ~ Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving

"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

"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."  ~ W.J. Cameron

"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

"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 sake of getting more!" ~ Will Carleton

"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. Powel

"Thanksgiving is a circle of memories." ~ Anonymous

"Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory." ~ Anonymous

"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 (David Grayson

"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving." ~ Merle Shain

"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

"The unthankful heart...discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!" ~ Henry Ward Beeche

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day . . . is the one day that is purely American." ~ O. Henry

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." ~ Johannes A. Gaertner

"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

"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much." ~ Estonian proverb

"Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving." ~ Kahlil Gibran

Poems

"Thanksgiving 8000 Calorie Poem"
Author Unknown

May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
and your pies take the prize,
and may your Thanksgiving dinner
stay off your thighs!

Thanksgiving (thanks-giv-ing) 1. a formal holiday for the express purpose of giving thanks  2. a celebration held in October / November

Cornucopia (kor-nyoo-kp-pe-a) 1. a horn shaped basket overflowing with a fresh harvest 2. abundance

Gratitude (gra*ti*tude) feeling or expression of thankfulness