H. U. Westermayer: “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.”
Estonian proverb: “
Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy:
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest
appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
William Jennings Bryan:
“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”
WT Purkiser: “ Not what we say about our blessings, but how we
use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”
William Faulkner:
"Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and
discharged and used up in order to exist at all."
Theodore Roosevelt:
"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected
from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips,
and shows itself in deeds."—1901
Phillips Brooks:“ Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon
your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in
your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better
time, or a better place to live in.”
Ritual chant: “We give thanks for
unknown blessings already on their way.”
Meister Eckhart: “If the only prayer you said in your whole life
was, "thank you," that would suffice.”
Edward Sandford Martin: “Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a
year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will
allow.”
W.J. Cameron:
“Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.”
Irving Berlin: “Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.”