Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitey Herzog

Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

Virgil Thomson

I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can.

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.

Ennio Morricone

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

Epictetus

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Oprah Winfrey

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

Rachel Caine

Here. Have a Coke. That’s good for a sore throat, right?” “Good for everything,” Shane croaked, and took the extended cold can with good grace. “Thanks.” “You owe me a dollar,” Eve said. “I’ll add it to the five thousand you already owe me, though.” He blew her a kiss, and she stuck her tongue out at him, and that was the end of the subject, thankfully.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

William Tecumseh Sherman

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

P. J. O'Rourke

Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.

Kevin Nealon

I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.

Mitch Hedberg

I hate turkeys. If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There's turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Some one needs to tell the turkey, 'man, just be yourself.'

Marian Burros

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland.

Marcus Samuelsson

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Kinky Friedman

The folks in Mississippi are saying, 'Thank God for Texas.'

Phillips Brooks

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

Ted Allen

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Tonya David

Know from our heart that it's a forgiving heart. Forgiveness is everything. It's everything.

William Blake

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

Saint Augustine

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Walter Scott

But with morning cool repentance came.

William Morris

So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea...

Rick Warren

To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.

Rick Warren

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

Rick Warren

And you know, when you've experienced grace and you feel like you've been forgiven, you're a lot more forgiving of other people. You're a lot more gracious to others.

Tori Spelling

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake.