Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Arthur Ward

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

William Tecumseh Sherman

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

Tony Snow

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Willie Nelson

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Joseph Auslander

Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Noah Wyle

Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

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.

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Woodrow Wilson

You have the greatest soul, the noblest nature, the sweetest, most loving heart I have ever known, and my love, my reverence, my admiration for you, you have increased in one evening as I should have thought only a lifetime of intimate, loving association could have increased them. You are more wonderful and lovely in my eyes than you ever were before; and my pride and joy and gratitude that you should love me with such a perfect love are beyond all expression, except in some great poem which I cannot write.

William Wordsworth

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

William J. Clinton

Our Nation owes a lasting debt of gratitude to all those selfless members of our Armed Forces who have risked their own freedom and safety to defend the the lives and liberty of others.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Richard Gere

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.

Yoko Ono

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.

Blake Mycoskie

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

Michael Josephson

Be thankful for quality competitors who push you to your limit.

George Burns

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

Bethany Hamilton

Strive to find things to be thankful for and just look for the good in who you are!

Jillian Mayer

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Izaak Walton

Let us be thankful for health and competence, and, above all, for a quiet conscience.