Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Buble

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies.

Melina Mercouri

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

Mark Burnett

When I see someone in a military uniform I make it a point to approach them, shake their hand and say five words... 'thank you for your service.' 'Stars Earn Stripes' is a high energy, fun, action show, but at its heart it is all about those five words.

Marie Lu

You must be as thrilled as I am to meet again.Call it an act of extreme kindness that I requested your leg be bandaged up," she snaps. "I want to see you stand for your execution,and I won't have you dying from infection before I'm through with you." "Thanks.You're very kind.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Joseph Addison

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Joseph Addison

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

John Taylor

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

John Sununu

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

James Russell Lowell

The gift without the giver is rare.

James Russell Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Harvey Mackay

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Henry B. Eyring

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

Henry B. Eyring

You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.

Helen Hunt

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

Elle Macpherson

Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.

Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Ennio Morricone

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

James Allen

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Louise Fletcher

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

William Foege

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Every time we remember to say "thank you", we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Richelle Mead

Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you know." I walked over to Latte and paused. "Say what?" "That I'm okay...for a vampire," he explained. I shook my head, still smiling. "You'll have a hard time getting any Alchemist to admit that. But I can say you're okay for an irreverent party boy with occasional moments of brilliance." "Brilliant? You think I'm brilliant?" He threw his hands skyward. "You hear that, world? Sage says I'm brilliant.

Rod Stewart

Well, there's not a day goes by when I don't get up and say thank you to somebody.

Satchel Paige

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Walter Scott

Welcome as the flowers in May.

Yogi Berra

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?