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

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

 —William Jennings Bryan

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

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.               —Phyllis Diller

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

—Estonian proverb

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.            —William Faulkner

I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness in yourself and in God. Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy.

—Anne Frank

Gratitude is the heart’s memory.                           —French Proverb

Your friend is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.   —Kahlil Gibran

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

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.        —W.T. Purkiser

How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative — or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.                                 —John Templeton

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude. —Albert Schweitzer