Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Herrick

Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land, And giv'st me for my bushel sowne Twice ten for one. All this, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart.

Tracy Letts

Thank God we can't tell the future. We'd never get out of bed.

Robyn Carr

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

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!

Richelle Mead

Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you know." I walked over to Latte and paused. "Say what?" "That I'm okay...for a vampire," he explained. I shook my head, still smiling. "You'll have a hard time getting any Alchemist to admit that. But I can say you're okay for an irreverent party boy with occasional moments of brilliance." "Brilliant? You think I'm brilliant?" He threw his hands skyward. "You hear that, world? Sage says I'm brilliant.

Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Rita Rudner

My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.

Thomas S. Monson

We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an attitude of gratitude.

Roy Blount, Jr.

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.

Storm Jameson

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Rudyard Kipling

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rufus Wainwright

I think my imagination and my passions are still firing away, but it's really the body that starts to make up the rules. It's not a major problem; it's just when you get a little older you realize how much your body thanks you when you are good to it.

Roberto Duran

I want to thank America. You opened your heart so I could enter. Thank you everybody who lives in the United States, who saw me grow into becoming a world champion.

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

Robert Pattinson

I'm a lucky person. Thank God. And I'm conflicted. Thank God.

Usain Bolt

I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

Usain Bolt

I want to thank GOD for everything he as done for me cause without him none of this wouldn't be possible.

Susan Olsen

Thank you for making a web site for me. I was so surprised when I found it.

Suzanne Collins

Peeta smiles at me, sad and mocking. "Okay. Thanks for the tip, sweetheart.

Thomas Merton

Our knowledge of God is perfected by gratiitude: we are thankful and rejoice in the experience of the truth that He is love...

Thomas Merton

To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything.

Thomas Merton

Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.

Tomas Transtromer

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

Shahrukh Khan

I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is

Shakti Gawain

Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level. We need to literally 'count our blessings,' give thanks for them, allow ourselves to enjoy them, and relish the experience of prosperity we already have.

Pietro Mascagni

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

Katy Perry

I consider myself a believer in something much bigger than myself, thank God.

Ralph Stanley

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

Ted Allen

Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!

Ted Allen

My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

Ted Allen

The funny thing about Thanksgiving ,or any big meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it then go home and cook,chop,braise and blanch. Then it's gone in 20 minutes and everybody lies around sortof in a sugar coma and then it takes 4 hours to clean it up.

James Patterson

Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving, when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.