Thanksgiving And Family Quotes

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

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

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.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

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.

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!

Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, 'How long has Mom been drinking like this?' My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, 'Here, kitty, kitty.'

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.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

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.

I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

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!

O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!

I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.

Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings.

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Reflect upon your present blessings

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

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.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

You know that just before that first Thanksgiving dinner there was one wise, old Native American woman saying, Don't feed them. If you feed them, they'll never leave.

If you count all your assets you always show a profit.

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

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.