"So remember while December Brings the only Christmas day, In the year let there be Christmas In the things you do and say."
--Anonymous

"Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
-- Oren Arnold

"Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!"
--Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
-- W. T. Ellis

"A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together."
-- Garrison Keillor

"Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day."
--Helen Steiner Rice

"To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year."
-- E B White

"It is therefore recommended ... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor ..."
-- Samuel Adams, father of the American Revolution on November 1, 1777 (adopted by the 13 states as the first official Thanksgiving Proclamation)

"Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory."
-- Anonymous

"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor."
-- Phyllis Diller

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
-- O. Henry

" Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
-- WT Purkiser

"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
-- William Shakespeare

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."
-- Henry Van Dyke