Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jules Verne

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

Mary J. Blige

Thank you so much for supporting me from the day I stepped foot into the music industry. It really means something to me to have Maya Angelou speak on my behalf. It also means a lot to have Oprah on my speed dial!

Pam Grier

Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

Nate Ruess

I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.

Mark Twain

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Mark McGwire

What a perfect way to end the home stand, by hitting sixty-two for the city of St. Louis and all the fans. I truly wanted to do it here and I did. Thank you St. Louis.

Oprah Winfrey

No gesture is too small when done with gratitude.

Oliver Goldsmith

Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Ben Stein

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Aaron Paul

Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.

Aeschylus

Pleasantest of all ties is the tie of host and guest.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

Joseph Addison

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

Joseph Addison

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Joseph Addison

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance

Jonny Greenwood

I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.

Kurt Cobain

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

Khalil Gibran

Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

Harvey Mackay

None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.

James Allen

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Jacques Maritain

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Henry B. Eyring

With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.

Henry B. Eyring

You could have an experience with the gift of the Holy Ghost today. You could begin a private prayer with thanks. You could start to count your blessings, and then pause for a moment. If you exercise faith, and with the gift of the Holy Ghost, you will find that memories of other blessings will flood into your mind. If you begin to express gratitude for each of them, your prayer may take a little longer than usual. Remembrance will come. And so will gratitude.

Helen Hunt

You have five seconds to enjoy it and then you remember who you didn't thank.

James Russell Lowell

The gift without the giver is rare.

James Russell Lowell

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

Friedrich Schiller

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

Louise Fletcher

I want to thank my mother and my father for teaching me to have a dream. You are seeing my dream come true.

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.

Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Ennio Morricone

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

Octavio Paz

If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.