Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Pausch

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.

Rami Malek

All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.

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.

Emo Philips

I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be - thanks to evolution.

James Allen

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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.

Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Pat Morita

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

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 K. Polk

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

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.

James Harden

I just want to thank God for everything he has done in my life.

Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech Thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of Thy favor and glad to do Thy will.

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.

Nicolas Cage

I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

N. T. Wright

When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of God, doing for us what we could not do for ourselves--that insight produces, again and again, a sense of astonished gratitude which is very near the heart of authentic Christian experience.

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.

Marlee Matlin

I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.

Mariano Rivera

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Max Azria

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Maya Angelou

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

So we want to thank our shepherd, Ang Lee.

There was a lot of pressure, but we did very well. I don't know what to say, just thank God.

Jose Guillen

You've got to say thank you to the bullpen.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.