Quotes About Thanksgiving

God Bless America! For taking a day off their busy life style, & calling it Thanks Giving! Turning that day into a National Holiday, just to Say! Thank You Lord, for Blessing Us so Bountiful!

Thanksgiving and every season of our lives that we are blessed to see a new should be a time we offer praise, worship, and thankfulness to God!

Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.

Mistletoe was her new favorite holiday decoration. She would have to hang some in the kitchen. All over the house. And keep the green stuff hanging until Easter. Or Thanksgiving.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty.

I celebrated last 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

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.

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.

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

There was no whimsical 'sip of wine at Thanksgiving' for us kids while we were still teenagers. This was the Clinton era, and my parents were already worried about the moral deterioration of the country.

The singer was lifted up and illuminated with gratitude, not for any one thing, but for the whole of his life, even for the agony. Even in Latin you could tell he was thanking God for the agony in particular, for the way it allowed him to cleave so tightly to the world.

The increase of blessing is not interrupted by God, unless thanksgiving is interrupted by the slaves.

And the Christian who knows what he or she is about will constantly reflect that the most natural modes of God-talk are adoration, thanksgiving, confession, supplication and proclamation, not theorization.

And so...we prayed. And I added a silent prayer of my own, giving God thanks for the blessing of my father.

We thank the Lord for happy hearts, for rain and sunny weather. We thank the Lord for this our food and that we are together. Amen.

In the average home there is much work to be done, and God does not approve of laziness. But beware thinking that your schedule (whether it is a homeschooling schedule or feeding-the-baby schedule) is inspired by the Holy Spirit. Life in our homes should be characterized by joy and thanksgiving so that children are taught and nourished in a way that takes their souls into account.

For Thanksgiving, a quote from my book, The Restaurant Reviewer, with deepest thanks for all the bounty: In the kitchen here ingredients are cherished. This restaurant remembers that food tastes good.

Thaddaeus, the tenth, is the disciple of praise, a quality in which the undisciplined man is woefully lacking. When this quality of praise and thanksgiving is awake within man, he walks with the words, "Thank you, Father," ever on his lips. He knows that his thanks for things not seen opens the windows of heaven and permits gifts beyond his capacity to receive

When this quality of praise and thanksgiving is awake within man, he walks with the words, "Thank you, Father," ever on his lips. He knows that his thanks for things not seen opens the windows of heaven and permits gifts beyond his capacity to receive to be poured upon him.

The man who is not thankful for things received is not likely to be the recipient of many gifts from the same source. Until this quality of the mind is disciplined, man will not see the desert blossom as the rose. Praise and thanksgiving are to the invisible gifts of God (one's desires) what rain and sun are to the unseen seeds in the bosom of the earth.

Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer.

There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.