200 FAMOUS QUOTES · THANKSGIVING
Celebrate with 200 Thanksgiving quotes from Abraham Lincoln, O. Henry, Maya Angelou, Erma Bombeck, Mark Twain and Thiruvalluvar.
"The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society."
Judith Martin
"Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious."
Ruth Reichl
"Food brings people together on many different levels."
Giada De Laurentiis
"Good food is very often, even most often, simple food."
Anthony Bourdain
"First we eat, then we do everything else."
M. F. K. Fisher
"After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."Oscar Wilde
"The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook."
Julia Child
"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first."
Ernestine Ulmer
"Stressed spelled backwards is desserts."
Loretta LaRoche
"I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."Henry David Thoreau
"Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile."
William Cullen Bryant
"Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature."Friedrich Nietzsche
"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers."
L. M. Montgomery
"Wild is the music of autumnal winds amongst the faded woods."
William Wordsworth
"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
John Burroughs
"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."
Marcel Proust
"Gratitude is the memory of the heart."
Jean Baptiste Massieu
"You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book."
G. K. Chesterton
"Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone."
G. B. Stern
"When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present, we experience heaven on earth."
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"Home is the nicest word there is."
Laura Ingalls Wilder
"Unquiet meals make ill digestions."William Shakespeare
"Now good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"William Shakespeare
"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
Charles Dickens