Thanksgiving Quotes to Use as a Dinner Toast or Prayer

Thanksgiving quotes are great opening words for a pre- dinner toast or a Thanksgiving prayer.

Humorous Thanksgiving quotes to use as a toast:

May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!
~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ~Erma Bombeck

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. ~Author Unknown

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

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

The thing I'm most thankful for right now is elastic waistbands. ~Author Unknown

Thanksgiving Quotes to use as a prayer:

Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life... a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year - and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God. ~Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson)

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder

Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don't unravel. ~Author Unknown

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~Attributed to Jacqueline Winspear

Thanksgiving Quotes to use as conversation starters:

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

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. ~W.J. Cameron

Thanksgiving was never meant to be shut up in a single day. ~Robert Caspar Lintner

Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. ~Theodore Roosevelt

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