Thanksgiving Quotes

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

William Arthur Ward

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

Meister Eckhart

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."

W. T. Purkiser

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

Calvin Trillin

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

Audrey Hepburn

"The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature."

Alfred Austin

"The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer."

"Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness."

Thomas Jefferson

"The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life."

Arthur Keith

"Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days."

Henri Alain

"Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest."

Douglas William Jerrold

"If the farmer's hands are slack, even those who have renounced all desires will not survive."

Thiruvalluvar

"The ploughmen are the linchpin of the world, for they support all others who cannot till."

Thiruvalluvar

"India lives in her villages."

"Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one."

Jane Howard

"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

Charles Kuralt

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

Sir John Bowring

"Having somewhere to go is home. Having someone to love is family. Having both is a blessing."

Donna Hedges

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

Richard Bach

"Friends are the family we choose for ourselves."

Edna Buchanan

"A friend is what the heart needs all the time."

Henry Van Dyke

"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship."

Thomas Aquinas