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A LITTLE HELPING OF SOME INSPIRATIONAL THANKSGIVING QUOTES!

 
 
 
 

   Are you looking for "Thanksgiving quotes? Thanksgiving inspiration messages or sayings? Here is just a small collection of some of  some inspirational Thanksgiving quotes.
   Thanksgiving is a holiday celebrated with a big turkey dinner shared with family and friends.  Oddly enough it is the most traveled holiday of the year and the perfect time to say "Thanks" and teach children the importance of being grateful for what you have.  The following Thanksgiving inspirational sayings are here for you to inspire your family this Thanksgiving.  So read though them and maybe ponder them in thought.  Maybe you could even use one of them when we say grace or our thanks before you eat a bountiful Thanksgiving feast.

  • "If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness.  It will change your life mightily". --Gerald Good
  • "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 Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow".--Edward Sandford Martin
  • "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving".--W.T. Purkiser
  • "Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It's a way to live".--Jackie Windspear
  • "Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men, but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude".--E.P. Powell
  • "For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee"!--Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • "We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have".--Frederick Keonig
  • "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving".--W.T. Purkiser
  • "Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow".--Melody Beattie
  • "Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal.  It's a way to live".--Jackie Windspear
  • "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
  • "Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare.  They re consumed in twelve minutes.  Half-times take twelve minutes.  This is not a coincidence".--Erma Bombeck
  • "An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day".--Irv Kupcine

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