Ethel Watts Mumford on Thanksgiving
God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
Konrad von Gesner on Thanksgiving
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.
Estonian proverb on Thanksgiving
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Erma Bombeck on Thanksgiving
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?
Irv Kupcinet on Thanksgiving
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Sadi on Thanksgiving
Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience.
H. W. Westermayer on Thanksgiving
The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts … nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
WT Purkiser on Thanksgiving
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
Martin Luther King, Jr. on Thanksgiving
We will speed the day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing ...Free at last, Free at last, Thank God Almighty, I'm free at last.
William Jennings Bryan on Thanksgiving
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.