Thanksgiving Quotes
This page is not a collection of Thanksgiving writing. It is made from three others, gratitude, family and happiness, and sorted by quality. A handful of entries mention the holiday itself, from writers as different as Harriet Beecher Stowe, the poet John Keble, Will Carleton, Patton Oswalt and Ted Nugent.
Most of what you will see is general, and it makes good table talk, with more sentiment than usual and less irony. Glance at the flag and the source before you print one on a place card.
Most quoted on thanksgiving:
In endless line the fortunes of the race
Go back for years, and grandsires’ grandsires trace.
And taught by thee the Church prolongs
Her hymns of high thanksgiving still.
Rich the treasure,
Sweet the pleasure,
Sweet is pleasure after pain.
That possession which we gain by the sword is not lasting; gratitude for benefits is eternal.