Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

George Bernard Shaw

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

George W. Bush

Thanksgiving is a time for families and friends to gather together and express gratitude for all that we have been given, the freedoms we enjoy, and the loved ones who enrich our lives. We recognize that all of these blessings, and life itself, come not from the hand of man but from Almighty God.

George W. Bush

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

George W. Bush

All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.

George Strait

I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.

George Carlin

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing

Kevin Lowe

Thanks to Mark, ... the Islanders couldn't touch us after that.

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Bill Bradley

Thanks a lot. It was because of you that I actually got in shape.

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.

Kumail Nanjiani

I approximated the Black Friday experience at home by hurling myself into a wall a number of times and then ordering online.

Harold B. Lee

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Something I didn't even know was on my bucket list has been achieved. I have cooked Thanksgiving dinner with Martha Stewart. I vow to follow the gospel of her teachings and do my very best in the remarkably less glamorous kitchen of my own home... without the luxury of magically appearing prep bowls filled by a staff of sous chefs.

George Herbert

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

Jay Leno

Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".

Jay Leno

You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.

Keith Richards

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

Kevin Nealon

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Irv Kupcinet

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

Ina Garten

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

Ina Garten

If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.

Harry S Truman

We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.

George Herbert

Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing... a grateful heart!

Jessica Simpson

For Thanksgiving we have to make a Tofurkey! It doesn't sound right! It's gonna be jiggly and weird.

Jerry Bridges

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

Giacomo Casanova

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living.

Izaak Walton

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