It is therefore recommended… to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor…
- Samuel Adams

More Famous Quotes

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto Thy name, O most High: to show forth Thy loving kindness in the morning, and Thy faithfulness every night.
- Psalm 92: 1-2

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 … thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people.
- Sir John Templeton

Let me put it this way. According to my girth, I should be a 90 ft Redwood.
- Erma Bombeck

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

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck – “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”

Funny Jokes

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?
- William A. Ward

If we meet someone who owes us thanks, we right away remember that. But how often do we meet someone to whom we owe thanks without remembering that?
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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