• "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 Tweet
• "If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get." - Frank A. Clark Tweet
• "The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving." - Merle Shain Tweet
• "If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken." - Ina Garten Tweet
• "It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there." - John Hughes Tweet
• "Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." - Henry Ward Beecher Tweet
• "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck Tweet
• "A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen." - Kin Hubbard Tweet
• "As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice." - Jennifer M. Granholm Tweet
• "From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever That dead men rise up never That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea." - Algernon Charles Swinburne Tweet