Famous Thanksgiving quotes and sayings are a great way to wish your co-workers and friends a Happy Thanksgiving. There are tons of Thanksgiving pages on this site including Thanksgiving Prayers, Poems, Thanksgiving Humor and Thanksgiving greeting cards. Check out the links or go to the Thanksgiving Main page to find a list of all the pages on this site.
Print out the quotes below in colorful fonts and add them to your scrapbook pages and handmade cards too.
You can also use these quotations as your Email signature during the holiday season to remind friends and family and even yourself about the glory and gift that a grateful heart brings.
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Thanksgiving Day Quotations for You
• 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
• Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner
• 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. WestermayerOur rural ancestors, with little blest,
Patient of labour when the end was rest,
Indulged the day that housed their annual grain,
With feasts, and off’rings, and a thankful strain.
~Alexander Pope• 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• 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• 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• Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don’t get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.
~ Galatians 6:9• Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
~WT PurkiserSo once in every year we throng
Upon a day apart,
To praise the Lord with feast and song
In thankfulness of heart.
~Arthur Guiterman, The First Thanksgiving