"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

"What if, today, we were grateful for everything?"

"Be present in all things and thankful for all things."

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life."

"Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever."

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life."

"The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

"A moment of gratitude makes a difference in your attitude."

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others."

"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."

"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share."

"We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all."

"We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown."

"Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are."

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."

"If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it."

"What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?"

"Thanksgiving, man! Not a good day to be my pants."

"I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it."

"I like football. I find it's an exciting strategic game. It's a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving."

"The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don't think so."

"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."

"It's not too much food. This is what we've been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour."

"I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage."

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

"Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel."

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us."

"Simple blessings are all around us. Once we receive them with thanksgiving and appreciation, we experience true joy."

"Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

"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."

"Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home."

"Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants, and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell."

"Pie makes everybody happy."

"Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life."

"If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken."

"Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie."

"Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it."