Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

Julia Child

Dining with one's friends and beloved family is certainly one of life's primal and most innocent delights, one that is both soul-satisfying and eternal.

We're overwhelmed with this event. Thank you with all of our hearts.

William Faulkner

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Barry McCaffrey

Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.

Bill Cosby

I'm not going out and hitting a 95-mph fastball where I can't see the stitches. I'm not on a professional football team looking to tackle a fullback who is built like solid wood. I'm a thinking person, and I've been blessed with the ability to see some things and talk about them in a way that registers in a humorous and funny way.

Catullus

Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.

Aron Ralston

Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.

Dan Johnson

Thank God. As competitive as we are, we wanted to get on the board. We were getting mad.

Hideo Kojima

Looking back, I am thankful that I didn't go into the film industry.

Jennifer Lopez

I'm so excited, ... Thank you so much for your support. I wish I could have been there.

Sammy Sosa

I want to thank you all for making the signs,

I want to thank the volunteer firefighters without them things would've been ugly.

I want to thank Mr. Edwards for his time in the negotiations.

Bill Gates

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

Bob Balaban

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

Carl Jung

Thank God I'm not a Jungian.

Calvin Coolidge

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

Wow, it's been a long time. Thank God.

We could never thank them enough for what they did.

Marcus Samuelsson

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

We?re blessed. We?re OK. We?re just thankful to be alive." ()

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

William Shakespeare

A table-full of welcome!

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much

I tell them 'thank you' because they don't need to thank us. I know they do it because they think it's the right thing to do, but I don't do it for that. I do it because this is what I want to do,

We should be thankful we don't live in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama.

We didn't know it until (a reporter) told us. Thanks for the pressure.

James Taylor

I can't thank you enough for showing up. It's not the same without you.

James Thurber

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

James Smith

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

James Patterson

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.