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Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. – Kevin James

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now. – A.W. Tozer

Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. – Seneca

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. – Phillips Brooks

Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! – Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. – G.A. Johnston Ross

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy. – Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. – Ted Allen

Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. – Aesop

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. – William Shakespeare

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” – William A. Ward

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others. – James Smith

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. – Johnny Carson

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. – Albert Barnes

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. – Robert Casper Lintner

If you count all your assets, you always show a profit. – Robert Quillen