“ On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. ”
- William Jennings Bryan- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. ”
- Irv Kupcinet- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ”
- Johnny Carson- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness. ”
- Robert Caspar Lintner- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude. ”
- E.P. Powell- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow. ”
- Edward Sandford Martin- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ”
- H.U. Westermayer- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ”
- Robert Caspar Lintner- Copy
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“ A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. ”
- W.T. Purkiser- Copy
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“ The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
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“ The private and personal blessings we enjoy-the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity - deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life. ”
- Jeremy Taylor- Copy
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“ Alcoholic beverages are to New Year's as a turkey is to Thanksgiving and a jack-o'-lantern is to Halloween. It's the central iconographic image. There's not much else. ”
- Robert Thompson- Copy
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“ Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God. ”
- John Pearson- Copy
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“ I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it. There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
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“ A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry - that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three-Mile Island. ”
- Johnny Carson- Copy
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“ On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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