Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Elliot

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.

Jim Gaffigan

The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

Jim Gaffigan

Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?

Jim Gaffigan

Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'

Jennifer Lopez

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

Gary Vaynerchuk

As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.

Franz Grillparzer

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

Jeremy Taylor

God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.

Jennifer James

We have so much, yet many Americans feel dissatisfied. Somehow the full table, symbol of abundance to the pilgrims, is not enough. We yearn for something far beyond the material satisfaction. Find your place in history this Thanksgiving by stretching beyond your table. Celebrate your survival by offering peace and sharing with your neighbors. Make the shift from in illogical feeling of lack to the recognition of abundance. Invite the Spirit to your feast, and prepare to feed the world.

Jennifer Granholm

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

George Whitefield

Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

Jeff Miller

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Harpo Marx

He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Howie Mandel

I'm from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I'm thankful for that.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George W. Bush

Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God.

George W. Bush

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

George W. Bush

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

George Strait

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

George Carlin

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Erma Bombeck

I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.

Erma Bombeck

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Helen Keller

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

Kumail Nanjiani

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

Harold B. Lee

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

George Herbert

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

Jay Leno

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".

Jay Leno

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

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?