Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alicia Silverstone

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

Ann Voskamp

Remembering with thanks is what causes us to trust - to really believe.

Ann Voskamp

Are stress and worry evidence of a soul too lazy, too undisciplined, to keep gaze fixed on God?

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.

Ann Voskamp

Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.

Ann Voskamp

And when I give thanks for the seemingly microscopic, I make a place for God to grow within me.

Ann Voskamp

The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.

Ann Voskamp

I know there is poor and hideous suffering, and I've seen the hungry and the guns that go to war. I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks for early light dappled through leaves and the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

Cindy Margolis

My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes. I love Thanksgiving, it's just my favorite. I can have Thanksgiving all year round.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

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.

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.

Simon Mainwaring

The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.

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.

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.

Storm Jameson

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

Richie Sambora

I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgiving with my family in a traditional aspect, eating sweet potatoes and cranberries and stuffing and all the trappings of Thanksgiving and then get on a treadmill the next day extra long, I'm happy.

Todd Barry

I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable.

Vin Diesel

I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

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.

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.

Suzanne Collins

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

Stanley Hauerwas

To come to terms with our beginning requires a truthful story to acquire the skills to live in gratitude rather than resentment for the gift of life.

Stephenie Meyer

You are so bizarre, even for a human." "Thanks.

Tom Robbins

Ultimately, the roast turkey must be regarded as a monument to Boomer's love.

Steven Pinker

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Robert Burns

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

Every day is a day to be thankful. Life's abundance has no limit, and gratitude is what keeps that abundance flowing. In every circumstance there is something for which to be thankful. Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

Mick Jagger

Thank you for leaving us alone but giving us enough attention to boost our egos.