Thursday, November 23, 2023 / Thanksgiving Day

QOD:  The problem with power is that there is no speaking truth to it when it holds all the cards.  ~  Dahlia Lithwick (b. 1960s), Canadian-born journalist

Thursday, November 24, 2022 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.  ~  Nigel Hamilton (b. Feb. 16, 1944), British-born historian and biographer

Thursday, November 24, 2021 / Thanksgiving Day

QOD:  The first step of getting things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.  ~  Ben Stein (né Benjamin Jeremy Stein; b. Nov. 25, 1944), American comedian and political commentator

Thursday, November 26, 2020 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  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, Jr. (né Henry Jackson van Dyke, Jr.; Nov. 10, 1852 ~ Apr. 10, 1933), American author and diplomat

Thursday, November 28, 2019 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.  ~  William Blake (Nov. 28, 1757 ~ Aug. 12, 1827), English poet

Thursday, November 22, 2018 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  The color of truth is gray.  ~  André Gide (né André Paul Guillaume Gide; Nov. 22, 1869 ~ Feb. 19, 1951), French recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature

Thursday, November 23, 2017 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  I am grateful for what I am and have.  My Thanksgiving is perpetual.  ~  Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 ~ May 6, 1862), American essayist

Thursday, November 24, 2016 / Thanksgiving Day

QOD:  The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.  ~  Baruch Spinoza (Nov. 24, 1632 ~ Feb. 21, 1677)

Thursday, November 26, 2015 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  People think my life has been tough, but I think it has been a wonderful journey.  The older you get, the more you realize it’s not what happens, but how you deal with it.  ~  Tina Turner (b. Nov. 26, 1939)

Thursday, November 27, 2014 / Thanksgiving Day

QOD:  Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare.  They are consumed in twelve minutes.  Half-times take twelve minutes.  This is not a coincidence.  ~  Erma Bombeck (né Erma Louise Fiste; Feb. 21, 1927 ~ Apr. 22, 1996)

Thursday, November 22, 2012 / Thanksgiving

QOD:  We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.  ~  Frederick Koenig (né Friedrich Gottlob Koenig; Apr. 17, 1774 ~ Jan. 17, 1833), German inventor

Thursday, November 24, 2011 / Thanksgiving

QOD: It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart. ~ Julius Lester (né Julius Bernard Lester; b. Jan. 27, 1939), American civil rights activist and author  [Julius Lester died at age 78 on January 18, 2018]

Thursday, November 25, 2010 / Thanksgiving 2010

QOD: 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 (May 29, 1917 ~ Nov. 22, 1963), 35th President of the United States