Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it. How sweet to think of! my extremities well charred, and my intellectual part too, so that there is no danger of worm or rot for a long while. My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau

O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Marcel Proust

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

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.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

I give thanks to my Creator for this wonderful life where each of us has the opportunity to learn lessons we could not fully comprehend by any other means.

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.

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.

John Taylor

And though I ebb in worth, I'll flow in thanks.

John Sununu

Office holders are a self-selected group; you don't get elected if you don't put your name on the ballot. There are many people who would do a great job, but who would never think to run. Find them. Badger them. Get them elected. They might not thank you for it, but a lot of other people will.

James K. Polk

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

James Russell Lowell

The gift without the giver is rare.

Marc Forgione

I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.

Thomas a Kempis

Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.

Sid Caesar

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

Marlee Matlin

I am grateful for each and every food bank that helps families in need. Now, more than ever, hunger is a crisis in America, and yet it is not spoken enough and people have yet to give enough to help those in need. Local food banks help fill this need but they need our help, our support, and most importantly, our dollars. No one should ever go hungry.

Mariano Rivera

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

Max Azria

I thank God to have it. I thank God that I finished it. And I hope that I will live enough to take profit of it.

Jonathan Banks

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life.

Judith Martin

many of the guests will eventually leave the table to watch football on television, which would be a rudeness at any other occasion but is a relief at Thanksgiving and probably the only way to get those people to budge.

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.

Rachel Caine

Shane? Thank God, somebody sane. Well, sane-ish.

Rachel Caine

I knew we’d wear them down,” Eve said. “After all, we really are amazingly cool.” And now it was Eve’s turn for the high five with Shane. “For a bunch of misfit geeks, slackers, and losers.” Which one are you?” Shane asked. She flipped him off. “Oh, right. Loser. Thanks for reminding me.

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.

Pope Benedict XVI

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Oscar Pistorius

Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!