Thanksgiving Quotes for Thanksgiving Day Cards
Show Appreciation for Food and Family With a Thanksgiving Day Quote
Nov 16, 2009
Use a Thanksgiving Day quote to express the right thoughts and emotions for the perfect card.
A Thanksgiving day card is a great way to show friends and family appreciation for all they’ve done throughout the year and for all their efforts on Thanksgiving day. Yet sometimes it’s hard to find the right words. So use these Thanksgiving quotes from poets, presidents, and the Bible to express the right emotions.
Thanksgiving Quotes on Gratitude
- “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them” – John F. Kennedy, Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 3 1963
- “True homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips and shows itself in deeds” – Theodore Roosevelt, Thanksgiving Proclamation, November 2 1901
- O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness! ~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part II. Act I, scene I
- “Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” – Voltaire (As mentioned in 20,000 Quips & Quotes by Evan Esar)
- "In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich." German Theologian and Pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer (As mentioned in Ethics, edited by Eberhard Bethge)
Spiritual Thanksgiving Quotes From the Bible
- “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9, New International Version
- “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus” Thessalonians 5:18, New International Version
- “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name. For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations” Psalm 100:5, New International Version
Thanksgiving Quotes About Family
- “You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.” Desmond Tutu, God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time
- "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." – Robert Frost, The Death of the Hired Man
- “[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in a Time of Cholera
Thanksgiving Quotes About Food
- “What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.” - A. A. Milne, Not That It Matters
- “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolfe, A Room of One’s Own
- “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” – Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
- “There is no love sincerer than the love of food” – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (Act 1)
- “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; And let my liver rather heat with wine, Than my heart cool with mortifying groans” – Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice Act I, Scene I
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