Quotations
for Thanksgiving
Our thanksgiving today should include those things which we take for granted. - Betty Fuhrman
In every thing give thanks. - The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:18 KJV
Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness. - Charles R. Swindoll
So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart. - Arthur Guiterman
Heap high the board with plenteous cheer, and gather to the feast, And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. Give praise to that All-Gracious One by whom their steps were led, And thanks unto the harvest's Lord who sends our "daily bread. - Alice Williams Brotherton (from 'The First Thanksgiving Day')
Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest, When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored, When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before. What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumkin pie? - Whittier, from "The Pumpkin"