Thanksgiving can be a wild mix of appreciation and great food, which is why we have gathered all the best thanksgiving sayings for your next post. And if you’re looking for short thanksgiving quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Happy Thanksgiving Sayings
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Eat – Watch Football – Eat – Repeat.
Happy Thanksgiving Day!
Thanksgiving is a lot like Christmas, except you don’t get any presents for holding in your familial rage.
After the Gobble Gobble comes the nap nap.
On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment — halftime.
Among all the wonderful things in this world, I’m grateful to be a part of such a wonderful, supportive, and loving family!
Thankful and grateful.
One of the joys of Thanksgiving is wishing you a happy and healthy holiday season.
The beauty of autumn lies in every leaf turning into a beautiful flower creating a mesmerizing combination.
Don’t be that guy who starts a diet the day before Thanksgiving.
Wishing you a bountiful harvest of blessings, good health, and happy memories.
Gratitude changes everything
Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Pumpkin kisses and harvest wishes.
The scent of November: Bright sunlit skies, nature’s warm colors, and the smell of changing seasons. The hint of new beginnings, knowing something wonderful is around the bend.
It’s been a long year but finally we’re all together again! So glad to spend this special day with you. Let’s raise our glasses and give thanks.
I was going to wish you a Happy Turkey Day, but I didn’t want to use any fowl language.
We’re thankful for football, recliners, and elastic waistbands.
Eat, drink, and be thankful.
Gratitude is the heart’s memory.
All you knead is love — and pumpkin pie.
Start each day with a grateful heart.
This Thanksgiving, my heart is bursting with gratitude, and my pants are bursting with several helpings of mashed potatoes.
May you enjoy this celebration with your family full of laughter and peace. Happy Thanksgiving greetings!
Family isn’t always about the people in your life who are blood relations. It’s about the people in your life who want you to be in theirs. It’s about the people in your life who accept you for who you are, support you in the things you choose to do and no matter what, are there for you. It’s the people in your life who love you, respect you and who you can depend on. Now that’s family!
Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s maple leaves.
I’m thankful for a lot of things, but I’m most thankful for You!
Enjoy the feasting! Happy Thanksgiving!
May your blessings be multiplied this year and throughout all your life. Happy Thanksgiving wishes to you!
I hope your Thanksgiving table is full of your favorite food and surrounded by your favorite people.
Autumn skies and pumpkin pies.
Although our houses may be far apart, our hearts remain as close as ever. Wishing you a season of wonder and abundance for the holidays. Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy turkey day! I wish you the best time with your family and friends, as the holiday fills your home with warmth and laughter. Enjoy the feasting!
Sending you warmest wishes from our home to yours for a loving and happy Thanksgiving. May this day be a wonderful reminder of the best and most important things in life.
There’s always something to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. Even if it’s just not being a turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving! May the autumn glow and delicious harvest of the season bring you happiness and prosperity!
Happy Thanksgiving!
My heart is as full as my plate
May your stuffing be tasty. May your turkey plump, may your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious, and your pies take the prize, and may your Thanksgiving dinner stay off your thighs.
I’m so grateful for good times and you
May your blessings be multiplied this year and throughout all your life.
May your month of November be filled with wonderful blessings of good health, love, peace, happiness, and prosperity.
I’m no Cinderella, but I know that pumpkins are magical.
Appreciation is like salt – a little goes a long way to bring out the best in us.
It’s turkey time
May you enjoy a bountiful Thanksgiving, a joyous holiday season and healthful, Happy New Year.
Keep calm and gobble on.
Hoodies, hot cocoa, boots, jeans, crisp air. It’s fall.
So many of my smiles begin with autumn.
Each day I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love. Most importantly though, I am thankful for you today and everyday.
Hit me, gravy, one more time
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
May your stuffing be tasty. May your turkey be plump. May your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious and your pies take the prize, and may your Thanksgiving dinner stay off your thighs!
Give thanks for a little and you’ll find a lot.
May your Thanksgiving Holiday be full of laughter, cheer, and satisfied tummies!
Have a most enjoyable Turkey Day, and save room for pumpkin pie.
May the bounty of the season fill your heart and home.
Don’t think of it as overeating on this day. Think of it as building energy for the biggest shopping day of the year!
Here’s to enjoying the company of good friends and family. I wish you a happy Thanksgiving!
Thankful, blessed, and mashed potato obsessed
By this time my blood type is pumpkin spice.
Vegetables are a must. I suggest zucchini bread, carrot cake, and pumpkin pie.
It’s not the minutes spent at the dining table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.
Save a turkey, order out pizza.
Blessed beyond belief
May your heart be glad and your home is happy at this joyful time.
My family told me to stop telling Thanksgiving jokes, but I told them I couldn’t quit cold turkey.
Gobble ‘till you wobble.
Let us give thanks with grateful hearts.
Being together is the best gift of all.
You’re my personal hero. All my life, you’ve taught me how to be a better person. I hope you enjoy a warm and lovely Thanksgiving.
Let our hearts be full of both Thanks and Giving!
As the Fall season chills the air and fills our homes with the aroma of pumpkin spice, I want you to know how grateful I am to have you in my life.
Time with family is time well spent.
We are so grateful for you and your family! Sending you all our love and best wishes for a very happy Thanksgiving!
May the good things of life be yours in abundance not only at Thanksgiving but throughout the coming year.
Pumpkin spice and everything nice.
Wishing you a happy and blessed Thanksgiving!
Thankful today and every day
To do: Eat, drink, nap. Repeat.
Leftovers are for quitters.
May your turkey be plump and your tummy full. Or is it the other way around?
Frost on the pumpkins, leaves everywhere, fall is in the air.
It’s Turkey Time!
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to be thankful for all the amazing gifts we have been blessed with. I hope your holiday is full of love and joy.
It’s not the minutes spent at the table that put on weight, it’s the seconds.
November is the time to be thankful, a time to remember and to embrace those who enrich our lives.
Getting together to smile and rejoice; eating and laughing with folks of your choice.
My weekend plans include lighting all my fall candles.
Autumn leaves and pumpkins please.
Eat, Drink, and be Thankful!
November is the time to be thankful.
May you enjoy a grand feast and the loving company of your family. Happy Thanksgiving!
There’s nothing better than having a friend who sticks with you in your good times and your rough ones. This Thanksgiving, you’re my guest of honor.
We have so much to be thankful for. One day a year hardly seems adequate…
There have been times when I forgot to thank you for being there for me. I take this day to tell you how special you are and how great my life has become because of you. Have a memorable Thanksgiving.
May your life be full of both Thanks and Giving!
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without a little emotional scarring.
Fall is my excuse for pumpkin everything.
Thanksgiving is here, and I cran-barely contain my excitement. Hope you have a great Turkey Day.
This is a reminder to set your scale back ten pounds this weekend.
May all my friends and family have a happy Thanksgiving holiday. I am so grateful for each and every one of you.
Giving thanks for you all year round
Hope your relatives stay relatively sober and relatively non-political this Turkey Day.
Thanksgiving offers us a special time to think of and remember all those amazing people who enrich our lives. Thank you for being such an amazing part of my life.
We gather on this day to be thankful for what we have, for the family we love, the friends we cherish, and for the blessings that will come. Happy Thanksgiving!
Toasted, roasted, baked and done! Hope your Thanksgiving is loads of fun.
Birds of a feather flock together
I love fall beyond a seasonable doubt.
Our homes may be far apart, but our hearts are as close as always.
May your stuffing be tasty. May your turkey be plump. May your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious and your pies take the prize, and may your Thanksgiving dinner stay off your thighs!
I’ve never met a pumpkin I didn’t like.
This Thanksgiving, cherish the time spent with your family as a reminder of why you moved very far away from your family.
We may not have it all together, but together, we have it all.
Give thanks for a little and you will get a lot.
May the wishbone snap in your favor this Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving!
Hope that you’re surrounded with the love of your dear ones on this festive season. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. Happy Thanksgiving to those closest to my heart.
Thanksgiving wishes from across the miles from our house to yours. May your home be filled with laughter and happiness!
Gratitude is said to be the memory of the heart.
Sending along warm wishes for a holiday spent surrounded by the people who make life worth living!
Let’s give ’em pumpkin to talk about.
When the days start to decrease, autumn starts to grow in everything.
Thanksgiving. Bringing out the best in family dysfunction since 1863.
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater.
Turkey and wine and I’m feeling fine
Hope your Turkey Day is full of fun, food, family, and most importantly, football.
This Thanksgiving, let go of any holiday stress that you may be harboring and embrace the freeing spirit of gratitude and holiday cheer!
Happy Gobble Gobble!
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
Being a family means you are part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life. No matter what. Happy Thanksgiving!
At this time of Thanksgiving celebration, our thoughts turn gratefully to you with warm appreciation. Our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving.
You are what you eat – Turkeys!
Wishing you carve out some great turkey-day memories.
This Friendsgiving, let’s enjoy the laughter of friends, mouth-watering aromas, and cheer that we’ll remember for years to come.
Thankful, Grateful, Blessed.
Nobody puts gravy in the corner
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
The gift of close friends is the best of all. Thanks for being there to share so many wonderful memories!
May all the good things of life be yours, not only at Thanksgiving but throughout the coming year.
This Thanksgiving, we’re wishing you a home full of food, good company, and plenty of cheer to go around.
Eat, drink, and be thankful
Happy Turkey Day!
Gratitude is the heart’s memory. Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving Day!
We have so much to be thankful for. One day a year hardly seems adequate…
Just a little gratitude can unlock the great fullness of love. Wishing you a wonderful holiday full of love and plenty.
The love of a family is one of life’s greatest blessings
Sending autumnal greetings to you and your family, and wishing you a holiday season full of peace, gratitude, and plenty.
This holiday gives us the opportunity to tell you how very much your friendship means to us.
I’m really glad that we’re family. Thanking God for having you in my life on this special day.
While I’m giving thanks for all the things I’m grateful for in my life, I want you to know that you’re among them. I hope you have a wonderful holiday!
Turkey Day is the moist wonderful time of the year.
Happy Day after Thanksgiving! Hope you didn’t forget to set your scales back 10 pounds last night.
Happy Fall Y’all!
This year, I’m grateful for so many things, but you’re at the top of my list.
Happy Thanksgiving! Let’s not get too busy this holiday season to spend some time together (even if it is on zoom!).
A happy heart is a thankful heart.
There is always, always something to be thankful for.
Cutest pumpkins in the patch.
I hope this Thanksgiving will be your most wonderful yet. Happy Turkey Day!
May your Turkey Day be full of excitement… except for a couple of hours in there when you want to take a nap.
Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling.
Here’s a heartwarming thanks to you for the hope, peace and joy that you bring to my life.
Hey there, cutie pie
This Thanksgiving I hope you’re able to avoid the tragedy of the different foods on your plate touching one another.
May your life be filled with good things to be thankful for as ours are filled with thankfulness for you.
Choose to be grateful.
Wishing you the bright company of good friends, the joy of a happy family, and the loving wonder of the holiday season.
Grateful for small things, big things, and everything in between.
Have a blessed Thanksgiving!
Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.
This Thanksgiving, cherish the time spent with your family as a reminder of why you moved very far away from your family.
Let’s get basted
If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily.
May you enjoy the feast and the company of your family on Thanksgiving day.
May your Thanksgiving be full of peace, love, and joy.
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Funny Thanksgiving Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Thanksgiving Messages for Friends and Family, Thanksgiving Wishes and Fall Puns.
Thanksgiving Quotes
“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.” — Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
“Family gathers to share good noise and good food. Gratitude abounds.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
“If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.” — W. Clement Stone
“Here I am, 5 o’clock in the morning, stuffing bread crumbs up a dead bird’s butt.” — Rosanne in Rosanne
“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.” — Erma Bombeck
“The Thanksgiving tradition is, we overeat. ‘Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?’ ‘But we do that every day!’ ‘Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?” — Jim Gaffigan
“Of all of the food filled holidays, Thanksgiving reigns king in the United States.” — Gia Scott
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — Willie Nelson
“Overeating at Thanksgiving is a case in point. It’s a national tradition.” — Eric Samuel Timm
“Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” — Nigel Hamilton
“Thanksgiving is an emotional time. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they see only once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.” — Johnny Carson
“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.” — Neal A. Maxwell
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” — Dalai Lama
“Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” — Willard Scott
“Good mashed potato is one of the great luxuries of life.” — Lindsey Bareham
“Thanksgiving dinners take 18 hours to prepare. They are consumed in 12 minutes. Half-times take 12 minutes. This is not a coincidence.” — Erma Bombeck
“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.” — Robert Brault
“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.” — Ina Garten
“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” — Richard Roeper
“Thanksgiving offers us an annual pause from the pace of life return to places we do not often visit and gather with people we do not often see.” — Jay Milbrandt
“Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.” — Jonathan Safran Foer
“Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.” — Wilbur D. Nesbit
“Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.” — Amy Leigh Mercree
“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.” — Kin Hubbard
So that is it for our list of Happy Thanksgiving Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one for you!
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Laynni has been sharing her travel adventures and day-to-day life on Routinely Nomadic social media for over 15 years and appreciates the importance of finding the perfect quote or caption to showcase those experiences. Putting her extensive writing and education background to good use, Laynni has become passionate about researching and curating comprehensive lists of all the best quotes and captions for every occasion.