Quotation Explorer - 'Thanksgiving'

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. - Epictetus
A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island. - Johnny Carson
He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving. - Jayce O'Neal
Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped. - Israelmore Ayivor
Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed. - George Carlin
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. - Jon Stewart
Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. - Henry Ward Beecher
Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. - H. L. Mencken
There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin. - Craig Ferguson
Best of all is to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. - Konrad von Gesner
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. - Craig Ferguson
Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful. - Israelmore Ayivor
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. - W.J. Cameron
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 a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude. - Amy Leigh Mercree
On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. - Unknown
Thanksgiving creates abundance. - Ann Voskamp
Black Friday (AKA Zombie Apocalypse)Is an event of subset half-dead human like beings confronted with ravenous bloodthirsty monsters preparing to pummel down the doors mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving Day. - Sage R Fury
Twas the night before Thanksgiving. All the food's in the oven. And I'm in the bedroom performin' self lovin'. - Craig Ferguson
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. - Rita Rudner
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. - Roy Blount Jr.
Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it. - Richelle E. Goodrich
​"But you can thank God the Lord for His inconceivable goodness, which can be recognized daily and hourly throughout your entire existence, if only you honestly try! Your whole life shall therefore become a thanksgiving! - Abd-Ru-Shin
Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do. - Tim Keller
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