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Thanksgiving 2020: 20 quotes – funny and touching – to honor the holiday

By Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
By Debbie Lord, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

With the strain of pulling together a Thanksgiving feast -- whether it is big or small this year -- it would be easy to miss the reason for the holiday.

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Below are some quotes that will remind you, in the words of the late Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, author of the “Last Lecture,” that “Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

  1. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” - Willie Nelson
  2. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” - Frank A. Clark
  3. “To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.” - Johannes A. Gaertner
  4. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about? I don’t think so.” - Nora Ephron
  5. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
  6. “After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” - Oscar Wilde
  7. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it.” - Rick Riordan
  8. “Forever on Thanksgiving Day, the heart will find the pathway home.” - Wilbur D. Nesbit
  9. “If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.” - Meister Eckhart
  10. “An attitude of gratitude brings great things.” - Yogi Bhajan
  11. “I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”- Erma Bombeck
  12. “What if, today, we were grateful for everything?” - Charlie Brown
  13. “Be present in all things and thankful for all things.” - Maya Angelou
  14. “When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.” - Sam Lefkowitz
  15. “When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself.” - Tecumseh
  16. “‘Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.” - Alice Walker
  17. “Give thanks for a little, and you will find a lot.” - Hausa Proverb
  18. “Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.” - Wale Ayeni
  19. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.” - Marcus Tullius Cicero
  20. “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” - William Faulkner


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