Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Vin Diesel

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Robert Burns

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

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.

George Canning

When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?

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.

Lorenzo Snow

There is no Latter day Saint who dies after having lived a faithful life who will lose anything because of having failed to do certain things when opportunities were not furnished him or her. In other words, if a young man or a young woman has no opportunity of getting married, and they live faithful lives up to the time of their death, they will have all the blessings, exaltation, and glory that any man or woman will have who had this opportunity and improved it. But if they think marshmallows and sweet potatoes are delicious, they're going to burn. That is sure and positive.

James Smith

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

Karen McCrary

We?re blessed. We?re OK. We?re just thankful to be alive." ()

Grenville Kleiser

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.

Corrie Ten Boom

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Clare Boothe Luce

There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.

Robert A. Heinlein

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Rupert Sheldrake

When people see one of these new forms of art for the first time, often they can't make sense of it. Then, if it's around long enough, a lot of people get used to it and it becomes assimilated into culture. So there's a morphic field both for the kind of art and for the appreciation of it.

Sri Chinmoy

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Tacitus

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

Maurice Gibb

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

Mortimer Adler

Let me roughly divide books into those which compete with the movies and those with which the movies cannot compete. They are the books that can elevate or instruct. If they are fine works of fiction, they can deepen your appreciation of human life. If they are serious works of nonfiction, they can inform or enlighten you.

Philip Sidney

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom.

Philip James Bailey

He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.