Thanksgiving Quotes for Thankful Hearts
Direct Thanksgiving quotes from that first celebration would provide insight into the Pilgrims' thankfulness to the Wampanoag people for teaching them to grow and harvest crops.
When a modern American quotes Thanksgiving, he or she is expressing thankfulness to God, and to the Native Americans, for the Pilgrims' 1621/1622 winter survival.
Thanksgiving Quotes around that First Table
Menu? Native Americans and English settlers gathered around a feast of venison, duck, goose, turkey, sea bass, cod, cornmeal, fruits and vegetables. Surely, there are many unrecorded Thanksgiving quotes regarding a spread such as this...think of this huge undertaking next time you're showering your own slippery, uncooperative fowl with foul language.
Attendance? Quotes about Thanksgiving tell us that there were 90 Wampanoag and 50 Pilgrims. All but 4 were men...
remember, those were the days before equal opportunity dining.
Venue? The first Thanksgiving dinner was held outdoors, only because a building large enough to house all of the attendees did not exist...
so, for the sake of Thanksgiving quotes' accuracy, I wonder if it shouldn't be called the First Thanksgiving Picnic.
Entertainment? Singing, dancing, games, and thanks to God for the harvest and for His sparing of the previous winter's survivors were offered...
rumor has it that Aerosmith was booked for that date.
Thanksgiving Quotes, Modern Day
Thanksgiving Day quotes and Quotes for Thanksgiving remind us of all that we are blessed with. Surely, most of us will never know the difficulty of a New England winter without adequate food or shelter, but we can use the Pilgrims' experiences to enrich our own thankfulness. After all, if they hadn't survived the winter of 1620, or learned to be self-sufficient the following year, history would have rewritten itself.
Thanksgiving quotes: For thanks, for giving, and forever. Thank you, Wampanoag.
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"Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude." - E P Powell
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"So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, To praise the Lord with feast and song In thankfulness of heart." - Arthur Guiterman
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"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
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"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F Kennedy
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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice." - Meister Eckhart
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"Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." - W J Cameron
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"Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song." - Konrad von Gesner
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"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." - Edward Sandford Martin
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"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily." - Gerald Good
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"He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart." - J A Shedd
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