Thinking of Thanksgiving...

When I think of Thanksgiving, it isn't about the food, or the cold wind outside, or the hot apple cider... I think it always made sense that Thanksgiving is about family. I can still see us all there--gathering around to tell stories and remember. How do you enjoy Thanksgiving? What stories do you read or tell? Read on:

• Thanksgiving Books
• The Thanksgiving in Boston Harbor - Hezekiah Butterworth
• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving - Louisa May Alcott
• The Morning of the Day - William Wordsworth
• Thimble, Thimble - O. Henry
• Mirages - Walt Whitman

Read more about Thanksgiving in literature! Read more quotes of Thanksgiving:

• "Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night."
  -- Irving Berlin
  
  
• "O Lord that lends me life,
  Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness."
  -- William Shakespeare
  
  
• "Once, when my feet were bare, and I had not the means of obtaining shoes I came to the chief of Kufah in a state of much dejection, and saw there a man who had no feet. I returned thanks to God and acknowledged his mercies, and endured my want of shoes with patience."
  -- Sadi, The Gulistan
  
  
• "The pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts ... nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving."
  -- H.W. Westermayer
  
  
• "Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving."
  -- W.T. Purkiser
  
  
• "I do not think of all the misery, but of the glory that remains. Go outside into the fields, nature and the sun, go out and seek happiness... Think of the beauty that again and again discharges itself within and without you and be happy."
  -- Anne Frank