57 private quotes tagged thanksgiving

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.”— Victor Hugo

“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”— Henry Ward Beecher

“The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”— William Blake

“There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.”— John Clayton

“On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.”— Bobby Jindal

“My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.”— Michael Symon

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”— Irv Kupcinet

“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.”— Sandra Lee

“I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.”— Michael Symon

“Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.”— John Clayton

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”— Kevin James

“It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.”— Marilu Henner

“I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.”— Todd Barry

“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

“Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.”— John Clayton

“It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.”— John Hughes

“The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.”— Merle Shain

“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

“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

“For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.”— Storm Jameson

“I'm thankful for every moment.”— Al Green

“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”— Frank A. Clark

“Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.”— Franz Grillparzer

“The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.”— Bob Schieffer

“Best of all is it 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