(241 quotes found)
“Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.”
Mike Connolly
“I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral”
Admiral (Lord) Louis Mountbatten
“Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.”
Bible
“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
Ayn Rand
“We ought to make the moments notesOf happy glad Thanksgiving;The hours and days, a silent praiseOf music we are living.”
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
“Be careful for nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. (Philippians 4:6)”
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God (Philippians 4:6).”
“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground. Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!"”
Jack Handy
“Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings.”
J. Robert Moskin
