Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

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.

Miley Cyrus

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Abraham Maslow

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Alicia Silverstone

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Ann Voskamp

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Rita Rudner

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

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.

Thomas Merton

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...

Robert Bohn

Sometimes, we get a slug of vehicles back in one month, which is more than we can do in one month. And then the next time, we're working short on Friday because the vehicles haven't come in.

Argus Hamilton

Hillary Clinton began a New York thank-you tour Friday by calling for the abolition of the Electoral College. No wonder Arkansas never liked her. She hasn't been in office three days and already she's an abolitionist.

Calvin Coolidge

This is as good a time as any to comment on what I think has grown into an abuse. Congress makes holidays and every time there isa holiday it is the practice for one department to telephone over to another department and say we are going to have an extra holiday in this department and what is your department going to do about it.... If it comes on Saturday, they want a holiday on Friday, and of course they couldn't come back and travel on Sunday and so they want another holiday on Monday to get back on.

Demi Lovato

Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.

Charles Bukowski

You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment--our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness.

Russ Hill

We all signed off on it on Friday and did it on Wednesday. We worked day and night to get this done.

Dan Boyce

There's going to be a lot of guys out there on offense that are green Friday night.

Argus Hamilton

The Columbus Day Parade was held Monday in New York. Columbus was the world's first Democrat. He left not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing where he was, went home not knowing where he had been, and he did it all on government money.

Darrell Waltrip

We usually couldn't do it on Sunday. We had to wait until Monday because were about ready to kill each other.

Holly Hatton

We're going to be racing Monday and Tuesday to regroup. We have to get past this big letdown this weekend.

Tommy Cooper

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

Tom Brady

I knew I became a professional when I stop paying attention to what time it was.

Tina Brown

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?

Victoria Osteen

The pressure you are facing is not going to break you. It's going to make you.

Victoria Abril

The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

Shawn Amos

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.