Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Carson

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

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.

Raul Julia

Thank God for the theater.

Robert Herrick

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart.

Stanley Hauerwas

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

Soren Kierkegaard

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Stephenie Meyer

You are so bizarre, even for a human." "Thanks.

Thomas Hearns

I prayed, thanking God, for making it all possible for me, because I knew where I came from.

William Shenstone

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

William J. Clinton

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

William Foege

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

William Gibson

You needed a new pancreas. The one we bought for you frees you from a dangerous dependency.” “Thanks, but I was enjoying that dependency.

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

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

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.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

Saint Basil

He who plants kindness gathers love.

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.'

Robin Williams

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

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.

Thomas S. Monson

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

Richard Pryor

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Tracy Letts

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

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.

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Wilkie Collins

I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.

Walter Scott

Welcome as the flowers in May.

Yogi Berra

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

William Law

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

William Jennings Bryan

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

Wilma Mankiller

We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.