Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For flowers that bloom about our feet; For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet; For song of bird, and hum of bee; For all things fair we hear or see, Father in heaven, we thank Thee!

Phil Gramm

Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.

Pete Hegseth

At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

Phyllis Diller

It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.

Phyllis Diller

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.

Rabindranath Tagore

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Plato

A grateful mind is a great mind which eventually attracts to itself great things.

Joseph J. Ellis

To my three sons, Peter, Scott, and Alexander who pulled me from the 18th Century and back into the present on a regular basis and therefore made me a better person, thank you. And to my wife, who sits at the table there. Who is right about almost everything.

Kobe Bryant

Thank god, I'm not from this world,

Thomas Merton

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...

Thomas Merton

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Thomas Merton

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Tomas Transtromer

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Lionel Hampton

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

Lionel Richie

Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in my career, what has made my career has always been the surprises.

Linda Lavin

Thank God that I am not over 75 so that James Earl Jones knows who the hell I am.

Linda Blair

Turkeys are misunderstood. Once I adopted turkeys, I understood this large bird to be a great companion.

Karen Duffy

I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.

Julio Iglesias

I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing because I love it when people say to me, 'Thank you.' I thank them. It's a marriage.

Todd Barry

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Simone Weil

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Simon Mainwaring

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

Rick Atkinson

I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived in Austria back when the American Army was still in Austria. I grew up subsequently in posts around the country around veterans.

Richie Sambora

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Tiger Woods

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'

Marcus Aurelius

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Marcus Aurelius

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

Marcia Cross

I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'

Marc Forgione

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

Sid Caesar

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Shahrukh Khan

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is