Thanksgiving Quotes

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more."

Melody Beattie

"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

Oprah Winfrey

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Eric Hoffer

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."

Robert Quillen

"Every day may not be good, but there is something good in every day."

Alice Morse Earle

"The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live."

Albert Schweitzer

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

"The turkey is in comparison a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."

"Thou that hast given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart."

George Herbert

"For each new morning with its light, for rest and shelter of the night, for health and food, for love and friends, for everything thy goodness sends."

"Gettin' together to smile an' rejoice, an' eatin' an' laughin' with folks of your choice."

Edgar Guest

"Hurrah for the fun! Is the pudding done? Hurrah for the pumpkin pie!"

Lydia Maria Child

"For I have had too much of apple-picking: I am overtired of the great harvest I myself desired."

Robert Frost

"O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together, ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather."

Helen Hunt Jackson

"The morns are meeker than they were, the nuts are getting brown; the berry's cheek is plumper, the rose is out of town."

Emily Dickinson

"There is a harmony in autumn, and a lustre in its sky."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house."

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all."

Stanley Horowitz

"Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."

Samuel Butler

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

Alex Haley

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future."

Gail Lumet Buckley

"Family is not an important thing. It's everything."

Michael J. Fox

"The most important thing in the world is family and love."

"Those who live by the labour of their own hands never beg; they give to those who beg, holding nothing back."

Thiruvalluvar

"He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones."