Famous Quotes

"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 on Thanksgiving

More quotes about Thanksgiving

• "Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."

  Oprah Winfrey on Thanksgiving

• "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."

  Jon Stewart on Thanksgiving

• "The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest."

  William Blake on Thanksgiving

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

  Erma Bombeck on Thanksgiving

• "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."

  Victor Hugo on Thanksgiving

More quotes by Henry Van Dyke

• "Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

• "Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest."

• "It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with."

• "Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why."

• "Genius is talent set on fire by courage."