Thanksgiving Quotes To Honor Your Loved Ones

History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States, Canada, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Liberia.

The history of Thanksgiving goes back almost four centuries. The First Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims after the first harvest in the New World in October 1621. Plymouth colonists and Wampanoag Native Americans shared an autumn harvest feast that is today accepted as the first Thanksgiving celebration in the colonies.

In 1789, US President George Washington became the first president to declare a Thanksgiving holiday when, at the request of Congress, he declared Thursday, November 26, as National Thanksgiving Day thanks to the United States Constitution.

There’s something extra special about the holidays, especially around Thanksgiving. There is an emphasis on festivities during these busy weeks, leading to countless coffee dates, Friendsgiving events on the books, and a CIA-level strategic plan to find out ahead of time that the family is about 12 different members. How to leave houses. Just a day or two. The holidays, even with all their chaos, keep us bound in tradition and relationships. It’s that time of year to remember what really matters, and that’s why we’re so happy to share great Thanksgiving quotes that will make you feel #blessed!

Short Thanksgiving Quotes

I’ve always had fond memories of cooking Thanksgiving. - Wylie Dufresne
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. - William Blake
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. - Kevin James
I’m thankful for every moment. - Al Green
Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. - Charles Lamb
It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak. - Phyllis Diller

Thanksgiving creates abundance. - Ann Voskamp
On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence. - William Jennings Bryan
Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. - American Indian saying
Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey — until Thanksgiving. - Mike Connolly
There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. - O. Henry
Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside. - Willard Scott

Funny Thanksgiving Quotes

Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition. - Eric Samuel Timm
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. - Oscar Wilde
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. - Marilu Henner
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone. - Reba Mcentire

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving. - Amy Grant
I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it. - Robert Brault
Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out. - Nicole Hollander
Ah! on Thanksgiving day…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 pumpkin pie? - John Greenleaf Whittier
It’s not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller
Thanksgiving – fall’s finale. Best damn holiday of the year in my worldly estimation. - Carew Papritz

If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. - Tony Snow
The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. - Ted Allen
When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup. - Sam Lefkowitz
I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that. - Howie Mandel
We would worry less if we praised more. Thanksgiving is the enemy of discontent and dissatisfaction. - Harry Ironside
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
Here I am, 5 o’clock in the morning, stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird’s butt. - Rosanne in Rosanne
Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
America has developed a pie tradition unequivocally and unapologetically at the sweet end of the scale, and at no time is this better demonstrated than at Thanksgiving. - Janet Clarkson

The thing I’m most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands.
There was a time, in the not so distant past, that if you didn’t have what you needed on Thanksgiving, you were pretty much going to have to wait until Friday. Not anymore! - Monica Johnson
I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable. - TODD BARRY
Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we’re thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what! - Debby Ryan
You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out. - Jay Leno
If you made a list of all the things you could be thankful for, the list would undoubtedly be longer than your misfortunes. - Catherine Pulsifer
Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time or a better place to live in. - Phillips Brooks
If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Someone needs to tell the turkey, man, just be yourself. - Mitch Hedberg

Happy Thanksgiving Quotes

Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. - W.T. Purkiser
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
A thought about Thanksgiving Day: Once, there was this day… this one day when… everyone realized they needed each other...
Happy We-Stole-Your-Land-and-Killed-Your-People Day. - Thanksgiving toast
My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jello with whipped cream on it. And it’s delicious. - Bobby Moynihan

Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg. - Tom Swyers
Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. - Marcel Proust
Thanksgiving, and all through the store; People are shopping, shopping for more.Buying things to cook and things to bake, What a task to undertake.
Homemade stuffing is my favourite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year. - Troy Gentile
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing. - Kurt Busch
Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. - Dennis Prager

Heap high the board with plenteous cheer and gather to the feast,And toast the sturdy Pilgrim band whose courage never ceased. - Alice W. Brotherton
Turkey for the girls and Turkey for the boys. My favourite kind of pants is corduroys. Gobble gobble goo and Gobble gobble nickel. I wish turkey Only cost a nickel. Oh, I love turkey on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. - Adam Sandler