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

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

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

—Erma Bombeck

Ah! on Thanksgiving day.... / When the care — wearied man seeks his mother once more, / And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. / What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? / What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?

—John Greenleaf Whittier

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

 —Thornton Wilder

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

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

–William Faulkner

To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

– Johannes A. Gaertner

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.

—Author Unknown

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

—W.T. Purkiser