1. "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

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

3. "Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America's obesity statistics. Personally, I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie, and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car." -Stephen Colbert

4. "Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action." -W.J. Cameron

5. "Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow." -Edward Sandford Martin

6. "Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude." -E.P. Powell

7. "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice." -Meister Eckhart

8. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” -Cynthia Ozick

9. "Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our lives, and make sure that they know it. And let's think about those who can't spend the holiday with their loved ones -- especially the members of our military serving overseas." -President Barack Obama

10. “Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.” -William Faulkner