Are you celebrating Thanksgiving with your family and friends? Here are some words for your blessing, invitation, or crafts.
Thanksgiving is one of the only holidays celebrated by just about everyone in America. It’s a wonderful time to remember how thankful folks are for the blessings in their lives.
General Thanksgiving Quotes
- 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. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry
- The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer
- So once in every year we throng/Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song/In thankfulness of heart. ~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving
- Our rural ancestors, with little blest/Patient of labour when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain/With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain. ~Alexander Pope
- Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. ~Alice W. Brotherton
Humorous Thanksgiving Quotes
- What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? ~Erma Bombeck, "No One Diets on Thanksgiving," November 26, 1981
- Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. ~Kevin James
- Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. ~Michael Dresser
- Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day! ~Thanksgiving toast, from the movie Sweet November
- 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 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 Blessings
- 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. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving. ~Joseph Auslander
- We give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. ~Author Unknown
- For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
And finally…
- May your stuffing be tasty, May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs! ~Author Unknown
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