Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Henry Clay

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

Eric Heiden

I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.

John McCain

Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar, and for our Qatari friends,

John Hughes

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Benjamin Disraeli

Never take anything for granted.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. ... We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is only with gratitude that life becomes rich!

Elbert Hubbard

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Ed Young

Father, thank you for the thrill that is in the air.

Jose Guillen

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

Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

Horace

Take as a gift whatever the day brings forth...

Horace

Only a stomach that rarely feels hungry scorns common things.

H. L. Mencken

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Jerry Della Femina

Thank you for making me nouveau riche.

Ernest Holmes

ANYONE may become a revealer of Truth who lives in close contact with the indwelling God.

Erma Bombeck

I originate from a family where sauce is viewed as a refreshment.

Erma Bombeck

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Erma Bombeck

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Helen Keller

For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

James Brown

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

Izaak Walton

If you can't be content with what you have received, be thankful for what you have escaped.

Izaak Walton

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.

Iyanla Vanzant

We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.

Iyanla Vanzant

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.