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Thanksgiving Day Quotes
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Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. (Quote by - Michael Dresser)
For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make. (Quote by - Odell Shepard)
Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie? (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
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! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
No longer forward nor behind I look in hope or fear; But, grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
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? (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. (Quote by - Irv Kupcinet)
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. (Quote by - Apostle Paul - 1 Timothy 2:1, 2)
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. (Quote by - Ellen Orleans)
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. (Quote by - W.J. Cameron)
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities. (Quote by - Hare)
By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. (Quote by - Hebrews 13:15)
Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, - a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise. (Quote by - George Herbert)
Thanksgiving like contentment is a learned attribute. The person who hasn't learned to be content we will not be thankful for he lives with the delusion he deserves more or something better. (Quote by - Robert Flatt)