10 Thanksgiving Quotes to Celebrate The True Meaning of Thanksgiving
Posted: Monday, November 12, 2007
by Noel Jameson
http://www.famous-quotes-and-quotations.com
Ready for some Thanksgiving quotes? I don't mean the "I'm thankful for my Nintendo Wii" or the "I'm thankful for my new car" quotes that we hear all too often lately. I mean some real Thanksgiving quotes that remind us of what we really have to be thankful for. Here are 10 Thanksgiving quotes to celebrate and ponder.
1. "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
2. "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
3. "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." ~ O. Henry
4. "You say, 'If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.' You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
5. "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
6. "We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction." ~ Harry A. Ironside
7. "It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general." ~ Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
8. "It is literally true, as the thankless say, that they have nothing to be thankful for. He who sits by the fire, thankless for the fire, is just as if he had no fire. Nothing is possessed save in appreciation, of which thankfulness is the indispensable ingredient. But a thankful heart hath a continual feast." ~ W. J. Cameron
9. "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others." ~ Cicero
10. "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
This Thanksgiving Day, let's remember what we truly have to be thankful for. Let's take a good, hard look around us and realize that while we may not have everything we want, what we want is not always what we need. Let these ten Thanksgiving quotes remind you of the true meaning of this great American holiday as you celebrate with friends and family.
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Top-level comments on this article: (5 total)Great quotes on thanksgiving. Thank you for digging them up and sharing them here. ~mogama~
Great quotes thank you I will use some of them in my message from the Lord today Praise God from whom all blessings flow............Be blessed
Thank you so much for publishing these here for the rest of us! It is a true blessing to be reminded. God bless!
I appreciate the quotes, I believe that some especially younger generations dont really understand what Thanksgiving is about. We tend to forget, that is sad but true. Everyone of these quotes made me stop and think about my own thoughts and brought a different feeling towards Thanksgiving. Thank you Almighty God for all the blessing you have blessed me with in my life.
"The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts..." Well, including the thousands of Indians killed by settlers in the "New England" colonies, it would a far greater ratio. And in clearing our heads of the myth of the first thanksgiving, let us not forget the genocide that is at the foundation of the "New World". According to conservative estimates, 10-12 MILLION Native Americans were killed over the course of 400 years of conquest by Europeans. Let us all humble ourselves in recognition of our privileged lives, and forget not how that privilege is not some "blessing" but is one wrought and wrenched from war and blood and death. Let us give thanks. More importantly, let us do better.
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