Thanksgiving Quotes

This is American Thanksgiving week.  Time for ten of my favorite Thanksgiving quotes.

• “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.”
• “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” Charles Dickens
• “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” Henry David Thoreau
• “Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” William Arthur Ward
• “Now thanks we all our God with heart and hands and voices, who wonderous things has done, in whom his world rejoices, who from our mother’s arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.”  Traditional Hymn
• ““Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.” —Erma Bombeck
• “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
• “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
• “Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever.” Psalm  107:1
• “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!” 2 Corinthians 9:15