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“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”

“We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.”

“When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?”

“On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.”

“How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child's personality. A child is resentful, negative, or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.”

“No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.”

“It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.”

“Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.”

“(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”

“Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.”

“Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”

“Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.”

“Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!”

“Life without thankfulness is devoid of love and passion. Hope without thankfulness is lacking in fine perception. Faith without thankfulness lacks strength and fortitude. Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.”

“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”

“I hate turkeys. 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. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'”

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.”

“If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.”

“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.”

“I love Thanksgiving turkey... It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.”

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”

“He who thanks but with the lips. Thanks but in part; the full, the true Thanksgiving. Comes from the heart.”

“For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.... Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host, and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?”