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Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.
Every other year, I spend Thanksgiving in England with Dave Clark from the Dave Clark Five and a bunch of other people.
Pepper spray, a Taser, a suckling pig and a self-built motorized spit. It's a perfect Thanksgiving, 'MythBusters'-style.
Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.
Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.
We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.
Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.
Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love.
Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I've got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.
Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good and doesn't solve any problems!
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.
Berries have a lot of soluble fiber. That's why they gel up when you're making your Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, with the pectin.
My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.
I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there's always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays with oak, especially at Thanksgiving.
My mother loved entertaining, and I've followed suit, so we have big celebrations for New Year, Passover, Thanksgiving and birthdays.
We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.
Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.
Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.
Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagree with politically but love them anyway.
When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'
Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.
The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long.