Thanksgiving Quotes

"Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

O. Henry

"And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison."

William Bradford

"I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days."

Totie Fields

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."

Orson Welles

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."

Orson Welles

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Lucille Ball

"You don't need a silver fork to eat good food."

Paul Prudhomme

"Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate."

Alan D. Wolfelt

"Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts."

James Beard

"We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly."

Anna Thomas

"Family is the most important thing in the world."

Princess Diana

"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar."

Delia Owens

"Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale."

Lauren DeStefano

"Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods."

William Allingham

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Charles Dickens

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

Mark Twain

"Great is the power of those who endure hunger; greater still is the power of those who relieve the hunger of others."

Thiruvalluvar

"The disease of hunger will never touch the one who shares his food with others."

Thiruvalluvar

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

"Give me only so much that my family is cared for; that I do not go hungry, and no guest at my door leaves hungry."

Kabir

"Trees do not eat their own fruit, nor do lakes drink their own water; the wise gather wealth for the good of others."

Rahim

"Even a millet-seed of help, to those who know its worth, is as large as a palm tree."

Thiruvalluvar

"Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses."

Alphonse Karr

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

Willie Nelson