Thanksgiving Quotes

"Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude."

Nigel Hamilton

"Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants."

Kevin James

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."

Irv Kupcinet

"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

"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."

Edward Sandford Martin

"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day."

Robert Caspar Lintner

"There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to."

O. Henry

"Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics."

Conan O'Brien

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."

Erma Bombeck

"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action."

W. J. Cameron

"Over the river, and through the wood, to Grandfather's house we go."

Lydia Maria Child

"Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor."

Henry Ward Beecher

"Thanksgiving is good, but Thanksliving is better."

Matthew Henry

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

"Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons."

Jim Bishop

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."

George Eliot

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."

Emily Brontë

"What calls back the past, like the rich Pumpkin pie?"

John Greenleaf Whittier

"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."

E. P. Powell

"I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise."

"I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends."

Nancie J. Carmody

"What I'm looking for is a blessing that's not in disguise."

Kitty O'Neill Collins

"Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving."

Amy Grant

"Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection upon the past year and those people who have helped to shape our lives."

Gail Lynne Goodwin

"Nothing says holidays like a cheese log."

Ellen DeGeneres