Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Bridges

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

Giacomo Casanova

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Jim Davis

Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.

Jim Davis

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

Rachel Caine

I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

Phillips Brooks

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

Jim Rohn

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way.

Joel Osteen

Heavenly Father, thank You for Your peace that rules my heart. I choose Your peace today and thank You for guiding my every step. I choose to be thankful today and bless You for Your faithfulness. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Louie Anderson

At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's."

Linda Blair

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

Phyllis Diller

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.

Phyllis Diller

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Judith Martin

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

Marilu Henner

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

Nhat Hanh

Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.

Noah Wyle

Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

John Greenleaf Whittier

What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?

P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Marian Burros

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

Mike Connolly

Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving.

Oprah Winfrey

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.

Marcus Samuelsson

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Kinky Friedman

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

Lev Grossman

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Paul Claudel

You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

Irv Kupcinet

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Ina Garten

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Ina Garten

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Harry S Truman

We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.

Keith Richards

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Kevin Nealon

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Mick Jagger

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.