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Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
Sep 29, 2025
And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.
Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude.
Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.
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.
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.
The turkey that President Obama will pardon this Thanksgiving is from California. The turkey said, "I don't need a pardon. I need a job.'
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
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.'
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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.
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!
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.
For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
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.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
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.
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.
We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.
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.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.