"The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts... nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving." - H W Westermayer

"Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day." - Robert Caspar Lintner

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. " - W T Purkiser

"There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American." - O Henry

"Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seed-time and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God." - Ray Stannard Baker

"On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime." - Unknown

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence." - Erma Bombeck

"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

"On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence." - William Jennings Bryan

"I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new." - Ralph Waldo Emerson