Famous Quotes

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

Merle Shain 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 Merle Shain

• "Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."

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