Ronald Reagan spoke these words in his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation on November 12, 1981.

In "Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen", O. Henry writes: There is one day that is ours.... The big city east of the cranberry bogs has made Thanksgiving Day an institution. The last Thursday in November is the only day in the year on which it recognizes the part of America lying across the ferries. It is the one day that is purely American.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a series of texts written in imitation of biblical prophecy but expressing Blake's own intensely personal Romantic and revolutionary beliefs.

What if, today, we were grateful for everything?

Oprah said: "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."

In Life Thoughts, Beecher writes: "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."

Good, ripe cranberries will bounce. Bounceberry is another name for them.

North Carolina is the largest producer of sweet potatoes in the United States, harvesting over four billion pounds of the vegetable annually.

Asia produces approximately 90 percent of the world's sweet potato crop.