Famous Quotes

"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday."

John Clayton on Thanksgiving

More quotes about Thanksgiving

• "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 on Thanksgiving

• "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 on Thanksgiving

• "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

  William Blake on Thanksgiving

• "Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

  Henry Van Dyke on Thanksgiving

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

  Erma Bombeck on Thanksgiving

More quotes by John Clayton

• "Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone."

• "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."

• "Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies."

• "Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?"

• "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."