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Quotes about Thanksgiving

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On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
WPWT Purkiser
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?
EBErma Bombeck1927–1996
We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way.
?Unattributed
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 Beecher1813–1887
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Irv Kupcinet1912–2003
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.
KGKonrad von Gesner1516–1565
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
?Unattributed
Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday… The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Ayn Rand Letter (1971–1976)
- America
As we give thanks for the Earth, will we live in such a way that the Earth can be grateful for us?
Robin Wall Kimmererborn 1953from interviews and conversations (2015)
- Nature
No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
Elie Wiesel1928–2016Nobel acceptance speech (1986)
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936A Short History of England (1917), p. 59
- Happiness