Looking out on the Atlantic Ocean from the dune deck outside my home in Emerald Isle, NC, I want to wish each of you a wonderful and relaxing Thanksgiving full of love, family, and happy memories. I am so thankful for each and every one of you, my family and friends. May your hearts be full this Thanksgiving day and may the rest of your year be joyful and prosperous.
What follows are a few thought on Thanksgiving by people who are a lot smarter than I. Covering topics like food, gratitude, family and friends, and more, these Thanksgiving quotes are perfect to share when you’re sitting at the table with the ones you are most thankful for.
“Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” ― William Faulkner
“Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.” ― William Shakespeare
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” ― Oscar Wilde
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” ― Erma Bombeck
“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” ― Victor Hugo .
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and new.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."
― Henry David Thoreau
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
– John F. Kennedy
"If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
―Tony Snow
Have a great Thanksgiving Day celebration in Emerald Isle, NC or wherever you and family are gathered today. If you have memorable quotes on this holiday, call or text me at 919-308-2292 or better, send me an email to DRaczkowski@fatomrealty.com
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