Famous Quotes & Sayings

We didn't know it until (a reporter) told us. Thanks for the pressure.

Thomas Fuller

Eaten bread is forgotten.

To all those people, we say thank you.

Ed Young

Father, thank you for the thrill that is in the air.

Alan Stern

We thank them for being here with us.

Franz Beckenbauer

What the FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Doris Lessing

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Daniel Radcliffe

The most wonderful thing I hear is people coming up and saying 'Thank you for my childhood', which still blows my mind but is very sweet.

Daniel Craig

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

Abraham Verghese

That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

Thank God I am not God! Thank God I am not God!

Alistair Cooke

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.

Allen West

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

Abraham Maslow

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Abraham Lincoln

I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.

Aldous Huxley

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Liam Hemsworth

I learn more with every job, and I'm very thankful for where I am.

Alexander MacLaren

Do not let the empty cup be your first teacher of the blessings you had when it was full. Do not let a bard place here and there in the bed destroy your rest. Seek, as a plain duty, to cultivate a buoyant, joyous sense of the crowded kindnesses of God in your daily life.

Alexander Pope

Our rural ancestors, with little blest, Patient of labor when the end was rest, Indulged the day that housed their annual grain, With feasts, and off'rings, and a thankful strain.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."

Albert Schweitzer

Think with great gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

E. L. Konigsburg

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

Dreama Walker

I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

Douglas MacArthur

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

Donald Curtis

It is impossible to be negative while we are giving thanks.

Dorothy Day

Thank God that He has permitted us to live among the present problems. It is no longer permitted to anyone to be mediocre.

Colley Cibber

Words are but empty thanks.

Dalai Lama

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Andre Agassi

The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.

Angelina Jolie

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.

Angela Kinsey

My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.

I thank God for not making me a computer scientist.

Conrad Burns

Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.