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Thanksgiving - The American Holiday

Yikes! We are already into the winter holidays. It seems like summer just ended. While you may not be ready for the holidays yet, that doesn't mean that you can't appreciate them. Consider the following reflections on the Thanksgiving holiday.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. - Phillips Brooks

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

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

Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night. - Irving Berlin

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants. - Comedian Kevin James

Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues, which the idle will never know. - Basil Carpenter

But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! - Margaret Junkin Preston

It wasn't easy telling my family I was gay at Thanksgiving. I asked my mom if she would pass the mashed potatoes to a gay man. She passed them to my father. A terrible scene ensued. - Bob Smith

If I have enjoyed the hospitality of the Host of this universe, Who daily spreads a table in my sight, surely I cannot do less than acknowledge my dependence. - G. A. Johnston Ross

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year. - P.J. O'Rourke

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. - Jon Stewart

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. - Meister Eckhart

A woman is looking for a turkey at the grocery store. While looking through the frozen ones, she can't find a big enough one. She asks the clerk if the turkeys get any bigger. His answer? "No mam, their dead."

Thanksgiving is America's national chow-down feast, the one occasion each year when gluttony becomes a patriotic duty. - Michael Dresser