Our Thanksgiving Day, becoming the focus, as it were, of the private life and virtues of the people, should be hallowed and exalted, and made the day of generous deeds and innocent enjoyments, of noble aspirations and heavenly hopes.
– Sarah J. Hale
What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
– Erma Bombeck
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
– George Bernard Shaw
Mother’s Day, it’s beautiful thought, but it’s somebody’s hurtin’ conscience that thought of the idea. It was someone who had neglected their mother for years, and then they figured out: I got to do something about Momma. And knowing Momma was that easy, they figured, “we’ll give her a day, and it will be all right with Momma.” Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. See?
– Will Rogers
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
– P. J. O’Rourke
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
– Alistair Cooke
There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
– O. Henry
Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day.
– Robert Caspar Lintner
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
– Emily Dickinson
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
– Hamilton Wright Mabie
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