Quotes About Thanksgiving

Celebrating a day of gratitude

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope that you enjoy a day of love, laughter, great food…and of course, poignant quotes. Here are some quotes for Thanksgiving that we can all have gratitude for today and beyond.

1. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don’t think so.” -Nora Ephron

2. “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands down.” -Tony Snow

3. “It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.” -Alistair Cooke

4. “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” -Amy Leigh Mercee

5. “Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” -Henry Van Dyke

6. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” -Kevin James

7. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” -Nigel Hamilton 8. “Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.” -Robert Caspar Lintner

9. “I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.” -Jon Stewart

10. “There are but seven perfect tastes in the world, and one of them is Thanksgiving cider.” -Edward Payson Powell

11. “Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.” -Jonathan Safran Foer 12. “That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on!” -Michael Strahan 13. “Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” -Amy Grant 14. “Forever on Thanksgiving, the heart will find the pathway home.” -Wilbur D. Nesbit

15. “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.” -Daniel Humm

16. “I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” -Marcus Samuelsson

17. “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” -Erma Bombeck 18. “Thanksgiving creates abundance.” -Ann Voskamp

19. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our Thanksgiving.” -W.T. Purkiser

20. “Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.” -Troy Gentile

21. “There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.” -Craig Ferguson

22. “On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.” -William Jennings Bryan

23. “For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.” -Andy Borowitz

24. “If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.” -Ina Garten

25. “We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction.” -Harry A. Ironside

26. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” -Joyce Giraud

27. “There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” -O. Henry 28. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” -Willard Scott

29. “On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment — halftime.” -Unknown

30. “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow, which may mean every day, or once in seven days, at least.” -Dr. Le Grand

31. “He who thanks but with the lips thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving comes from the heart.” -J.A. Shedd 32. “Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.” -Jonathan Safran Foer

33. “Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.” -Melanie White

34. “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of thanks.” -Monique Hammond

35. “Thanksgiving isn’t just a day. It’s a way we can live our lives every day.” -Katrina Mayer

36. “Superficial social niceties are far different from the deep emotion of thanksgiving.” -Alexandra Katehakis

37. “Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.” -Augusten Burroughs

38. “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

39. “Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” -Amy Leigh Mercree

40. “Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough

41. “Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.” -P.J. O’Rourke

42. “I’m doing better than a turkey on Thanksgiving.” -Jessica Marie Baumgartner

43. “Thanksgiving day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.” -Edward Payson Powell 44. “The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook, chop, braise, and blanch. Then it’s gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sort of in a sugar coma and then it takes four hours to clean it up.” -Ted Allen

45. “Sometimes I feel the real meaning of Thanksgiving is lost in a flurry of turkey, prayers and homecomings. 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?” -Erma Bombeck

46. “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

47. “Give thanks not just on Thanksgiving Day, but every day of your life. Appreciate and never take for granted all that you have.” -Catherine Pulsifer

48. “Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.” -W.J. Cameron

49. “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” -Victor Hugo

50. “Thanksgiving: A day to pray and humbly say, ‘I thank thee, God. Life is okay.’” -Richelle E. Goodrich

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