Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Barnes

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

William Law

God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else. God loves it, too. An amazing thing happens when we offer praise and thanksgiving to God. When we give God enjoyment, our own hearts are filled with joy.

William Jennings Bryan

On Thanksgiving Day we acknowledge our dependence.

William J. Clinton

Sharing in God's blessings is at the heart of Thanksgiving and at the core of the American spirit.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the 'good life' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.

Richard Pryor

I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Robin Williams

[when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Wayne Dyer

Expressing gratitude for the miracles in your world is one of the best ways to make each moment of your life a special one. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your loved ones!

Wilma Mankiller

We celebrate Thanksgiving along with the rest of America, maybe in different ways and for different reasons. Despite everything that's happened to us since we fed the Pilgrims, we still have our language, our culture, our distinct social system. Even in a nuclear age, we still have a tribal people.

Robert Crais

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.

Robert Collier

The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...

Richard P. Feynman

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

Richard Hofstadter

There has always been in our national experience a type of mind which elevates hatred to a kind of creed; for this mind, group hatreds take a place in politics similar to the class struggle in some other modern societies.

Richard Dawkins

It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

Richelle Mead

Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That’s what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out. Those were his last words.

Richelle Mead

To Thetis, Long overdue, I know, but every often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle. That is a human truth, I think. Even Peleus knew that. -Seth

Richelle Mead

I looked him in the eye, "I will always love you." Then plunged the stake into his chest. It wasn't as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and pained one. "That's what I was supposed to say..." he gasped out.

Richelle Mead

Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.

M. J. Rose

Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.

Chuck Viane

It all starts with good movies and we've been blessed with four in a row.

Michael Barrett

He is the blessed seed of the Messiah. He wouldn't be seen as divine as Haile Selassie, but as being of his family tree. The royal family is held in high esteem.

Troy Polamalu

There are still a lot of things I need to work on. I'm not there yet, I'm far from there. I just feel blessed because I have been put in this situation with coach LeBeau.

Danny Simmons

Here we are, the Lord's blessed us well with the good people of this county to help us.

Dominick Ballard

God's already blessed us because he spared our lives so it can't get no worse than it already was. And I already see better things happening already.

J. Horton

Going through a tough time a lot of people turn to God and Jesus for salvation, ... I feel like football is the salvation the Lord blessed me with to take my mind off a lot of things. It helps me a whole lot when I'm out there. I don't think about anything but football.

Pat Ross

He's a wonderful guy who cares about everyone and everything. He watches out for people and goes out of his way to help. He's the kind of person you wish the whole world was made of. We are blessed to have him.

Mark Twain

It is a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed