Words for Thanksgiving

Find Thanksgiving messages and words to celebrate this national day of thanks.

  1. abundant
  2. American
  3. ample
  4. appreciative
  5. autumnal
  6. baked
  7. blessed
  8. bountiful
  9. buttery
  10. candied
  11. cheerful
  12. classic
  13. creamy
  14. crisp
  1. joyful
  2. joyous
  3. lavish
  4. manifold
  5. mashed
  6. meaningful
  7. merry
  8. native
  9. noble
  10. past
  11. piping hot
  12. plump
  13. privileged
  14. prosperous
  1. delicious
  2. drowsy
  3. elegant
  4. family-style
  5. fortunate
  6. fun-filled
  7. generous
  8. glazed
  9. golden
  10. gracious
  11. grateful
  12. happy
  13. historical
  14. home-cooked
  1. roasted
  2. savory
  3. seasonal
  4. special
  5. spiced
  6. steaming
  7. stuffed
  8. sweet
  9. thankful
  10. traditional
  11. welcoming
  12. whipped
  13. wonderful
  1. a bountiful table
  2. a day of thanks
  3. a grateful heart
  4. abundance
  5. acorns
  6. America
  7. an American holiday
  8. ancestors
  9. appreciation
  10. aroma
  11. autumn
  12. beans
  13. biscuits
  14. black Friday
  15. blessings
  16. bounty
  17. brunch
  18. buns
  19. card table
  20. casserole
  21. celebration
  22. centerpiece
  23. cheer
  24. cider
  25. coffee
  26. colonists
  27. compliments to the chef
  28. corn
  29. cornbread
  30. cornucopia
  31. cranberries
  32. cranberry sauce
  33. dark meat
  34. dessert
  35. dinner
  1. kitchen
  2. leftovers
  3. long weekend
  4. lunch
  5. maize
  6. mashed potatoes
  7. Massachusetts
  8. Mayflower
  9. meal
  10. melting pot
  11. memories
  12. nap
  13. Native Americans
  14. New World
  15. November
  16. our great nation
  17. oven
  18. pans
  19. parade
  20. parents
  21. pecan
  22. pecan pie
  23. pie
  24. pie crust
  25. Pilgrim's pride
  26. Pilgrims
  27. plate
  28. platter
  29. plenty
  30. Plymouth
  31. Plymouth Rock
  32. Plymouth, Massachusetts
  33. prayer
  34. providence
  35. pumpkin pie
  1. donations
  2. drumstick
  3. faith
  4. fall
  5. family
  6. family reunion
  7. family tradition
  8. feast
  9. fine china
  10. food coma
  11. forefathers
  12. friends
  13. gathering
  14. giblets
  15. good things to eat
  16. gourd
  17. grandparents
  18. gratitude
  19. gravy
  20. green beans
  21. ham
  22. happiness
  23. harvest
  24. harvest moon
  25. harvest season
  26. heritage
  27. history
  28. holiday
  29. home
  30. home-cooked meal
  31. homemade food
  32. horn of plenty
  33. host
  34. hostess
  35. Indian corn
  1. recipe
  2. religion
  3. roast
  4. rolls
  5. season
  6. settlers
  7. sharing
  8. spread
  9. squash
  10. stuffing
  11. sweet potatoes
  12. T-day
  13. tablecloth
  14. thanks
  15. Thanksgiving
  16. Thanksgiving Day Parade
  17. Thanksgiving dinner
  18. Thanksgiving feast
  19. Thanksgiving spread
  20. Thanksgiving table
  21. the Thanksgiving story
  22. third Thursday
  23. Thursday
  24. tofurkey
  25. tradition
  26. travel
  27. tryptophan
  28. turkey
  29. Turkey Day
  30. walnut
  31. whipped cream
  32. white meat
  33. wine
  34. wishbone
  35. yams
  1. acknowledge
  2. appreciate
  3. bake
  4. baste
  5. be mindful
  6. bless
  7. break bread together
  8. bring a side
  9. carve the turkey
  10. celebrate
  11. celebrate our heritage
  12. chow
  13. come together
  14. cook
  15. cook all day
  16. cook the turkey
  17. count your blessings
  18. cover in gravy
  19. defeather
  20. dine
  1. host
  2. host Thanksgiving
  3. loosen up your belt
  4. nap
  5. overflow
  6. pace yourself
  7. pass
  8. pay tribute
  9. pick at the turkey
  10. praise
  11. pray
  12. reap the harvest
  13. reflect
  14. rejoice
  15. relax
  16. remember
  17. remind us
  18. say grace
  19. say the blessing
  20. serve
  1. eat
  2. eat too much
  3. enjoy
  4. express thanks
  5. fall into a food coma
  6. feast
  7. feel full
  8. gather
  9. gather 'round
  10. gather to the feast
  11. gather together
  12. get stuffed
  13. get together
  14. give praise
  15. give thanks
  16. go home
  17. gobble
  18. harvest
  19. have
  20. help clean up
  1. set the table
  2. share
  3. sit at the kids' table
  4. snooze
  5. sow
  6. spend time
  7. spread cheer
  8. stuff
  9. stuff a turkey
  10. symbolize
  11. take a nap
  12. thank
  13. thank God
  14. toast the chef
  15. travel
  16. unite
  17. unite family
  18. visit with family
  19. watch football
  20. welcome
  1. a bounty of happiness
  2. a bushel of blessings
  3. a cornucopia full of []
  4. a day of thanks
  5. a day of thanksgiving
  6. a day steeped in tradition
  7. a day to expres your thanks and gratitude
  8. a day to reflect/remind us of our blessings
  9. a day to watch football
  10. a fabulous feast
  11. a harvest of memories
  12. a lavish meal
  13. a season of appreciation
  14. a Thanksgiving prayer for you
  15. a time for sharing and being happy
  16. bless this food
  17. break bread together
  18. celebrate harvest and heritage
  1. have a Happy Turkey Day!
  2. home for Thanksgiving
  3. I'll be the Official Turkey Taste Tester
  4. I'm more stuffed than the turkey
  5. in the loving company of friends and family
  6. it's time for a nap
  7. let let the thankful heart sweeps through the day
  8. let us give thanks
  9. let us reap the harvest together
  10. let's talk turkey
  11. lovin' from the oven
  12. may the bounty of the season fill your heart and your home
  13. may you be blessed this Thanksgiving
  14. Mom's little turkey
  15. my compliments to the chef!
  16. my little gobbler
  17. my, my, look at the pies!
  18. our cups overfloweth
  1. celebrate our great nation
  2. celebrating life's harvest
  3. count your blessings
  4. donate to the needy
  5. eat and watch football
  6. eat ‘till you drop, for tomorrow we shop!
  7. eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet
  8. enter with a thankful heart
  9. every third Thursday of November
  10. friends, family, food, and football
  11. full of good things to eat
  12. gather with grateful hearts
  13. give thanks for everything except the veggies
  14. give thanks to God
  15. gobble 'till you wobble
  16. gobble gobble!
  17. gobble gobble, wobble wobble!
  18. Happy Thanksgiving
  1. save the turkeys!
  2. so much to be thankful for
  3. spend time with friends and family
  4. start a new diet the day after Thanksgiving
  5. sugar high from too much pie
  6. the blessings of life are upon you
  7. the fourth Thursday of November
  8. the spirit of Thanksgiving
  9. the table is set, the family’s in town, and we’ll eat ‘till we’re all plump and round
  10. the true meaning of Thanksgiving
  11. too many cooks in the kitchen
  12. we are thankful for our many blessings
  13. what a beautiful bird
  14. what a bunch of turkeys!
  15. when do we eat?
  16. when I count my blessings, I count you.
  17. wishing you the best of the season
  1. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day. -Irv Kupcinet
  2. At Thanksgiving, my mom always makes too much food, especially one item, like 700 or 800 pounds of sweet potatoes. She's got to push it during the meal. "Did you get some sweet potatoes? There's sweet potatoes. They're hot. There's more in the oven, some more in the garage. The rest are at the Johnson's." -Louie Anderson
  3. Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. -Oprah Winfrey
  4. Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song. -Konrad von Gesner
  5. But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie! -Margaret Junkin Preston
  6. Coexistence... what the farmer does with the turkey - until Thanksgiving. -Mike Connolly
  7. Do not get tired of doing what is good. Don't get discouraged and give up, For we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time. -Galatians 6:9
  8. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. -William Arthur Ward
  9. Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. -William Faulkner
  10. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -Melody Beattie
  11. Happiness is the realization of God in the heart. Happiness is the result of praise and thanksgiving, of faith, of acceptance; a quiet tranquil realization of the love of God. -White Eagle
  12. He who thanks but with the lips
  13. How wonderful it would be if we could help our children and grandchildren to learn thanksgiving at an early age. Thanksgiving opens the doors. It changes a child’s personality. A child is resentful, negative—or thankful. Thankful children want to give, they radiate happiness, they draw people. -Sir John Templeton
  1. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. -Henry Ward Beecher
  2. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -Charles Dickens
  3. Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in. -Phillips Brooks
  4. Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart. -J.A. Shedd
  5. Thanksgiving comes to us out of the prehistoric dimness, universal to all ages and all faiths. At whatever straws we must grasp, there is always a time for gratitude and new beginnings. -J. Robert Moskin
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. -Erma Bombeck
  9. 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
  10. Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. -Ayn Rand
  11. Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. -Johnny Carson
  12. Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. -Johnny Carson
  13. Thanksgiving is the day when you turn to another family member and say, "How long has Mom been drinking like this?" My Mom, after six Bloody Marys looks at the turkey and goes, "Here, kitty, kitty." -David Letterman
  1. I celebrated Thanksgiving in the traditional way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house; we had an enormous feast. And then I killed them and took their land. -Jon Stewart
  2. I love Thanksgiving turkey...it's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. -Arnold Schwarzenegger
  3. If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice. -Meister Eckhart
  4. It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general. -Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
  5. It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak. -Phyllis Diller
  6. It was dramatic to watch my grandmother decapitate a turkey with an ax the day before Thanksgiving. Nowadays the expense of hiring grandmothers for the ax work would probably qualify all turkeys so honored with "gourmet" status. -Russell Baker
  7. It's a thanksgiving to God. It's something I have wanted to do for a long time, but the record company wasn't ready for it. So I did it myself. -Aaron Neville
  8. It's better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch. -Marilu Henner
  9. It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. -John Hughes
  10. My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow. -Rita Rudner
  11. My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it. -Ted Allen
  12. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. -W.T. Purkiser
  13. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. -WT Purkiser
  1. Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action. -W. J. Cameron
  2. Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England”. -Jay Leno
  3. The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. -Ted Allen
  4. The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweeps through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings! -Henry Ward Beecher
  5. There are a lot of New York City Thanksgiving traditions. For example, a lot of New Yorkers don't buy the frozen Thanksgiving turkey. They prefer to buy the bird live and then push it in front of a subway train. -David Letterman
  6. There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. . . Thanksgiving Day . . . is the one day that is purely American. -O. Henry
  7. This Thanksgiving is gonna be a special one. My mom says I don't have to sit at the card table. - Jim Samuels
  8. To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven. -Johannes A. Gaertner
  9. We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing. -George Carlin
  10. What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? -Erma Bombeck
  11. When I was a kid in Indiana, we thought it would be fun to get a turkey a year ahead of time and feed it and so on for the following Thanksgiving. But by the time Thanksgiving came around, we sort of thought of the turkey as a pet, so we ate the dog. Only kidding. It was the cat. -David Letterman
  12. Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much. -Estonian proverb
  13. You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out. -Jay Leno