To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.
Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
That’s one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football’s on!
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it’s delicious.
For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn’t open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.
I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot.
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day.
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.
When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn’t be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.’
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.
A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.
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.
You can’t have a good Thanksgiving meal without a little bit of ketchup on the side.
It’s funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren’t allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine’s Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It’s called Four Blind Mice and it’s a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
I got quite into Spam once, in Korea. On their Thanksgiving, they give boxes of it to their friends. I fry it in batter with herbs wrapped around.
I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
