Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliette G. Low

When I was little, people fattened and then slaughtered their own Thanksgiving turkeys.

Britt Beemer

With nothing hot to buy in decorations this Christmas, many stores started selling two weeks earlier than ever before, beginning in mid-September. Many stores skipped Thanksgiving altogether and went from Halloween to Christmas.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Charles Lamb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

William Faulkner

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

Amy Sedaris

I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff raff is around. Then I get that last-minute surge of energy. But if I had two weeks to plan, sometimes I wish I wasn't doing it. But very seldom does that happen.

Calvin Coolidge

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

Arthur Guiterman

So once in every year we throng Upon a day apart, to praise the Lord with feast and song in thankfulness of heart.

Ben Stein

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

David Corbin

We've asked the city to continue its consideration of the project until April. We want time to look at our options with regard to Holiday House specifically and our overall employee housing needs in general. At this point, we want to go back and revisit our full employee housing goals.

Lisa Smith

We've always done trivia. It's tradition. And we also have football bingo, a food contest and plenty of Dollar Store prizes. It's kind of like another holiday for us.

Heather Dougherty

We remain enthusiastic about the start of this holiday season, as several categories saw substantial revenue increases. The growth in 2004 holiday revenue suggests that consumers are shifting more dollars to the Internet this season.

John Lonski

Unless energy prices ease, the holiday shopping season will probably be mediocre at best.

Osamu Tamada

US Treasuries were sold down heavily (overnight) and this and the upcoming Golden Week holiday appear to have provided a cue for sellers.

Scott Hoyt

Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.

John Eyler

With the holidays now upon us, everyone throughout our global toy organization is focused on maximizing our performance during this season, ... We have begun to execute our holiday strategies, and we believe consumers are clearly recognizing that we have the widest assortment of toys available.

Brian Tunick

With November comparable down 8 percent and the company lowering guidance once again, Hot Topic continues to be on the wrong side of the fashion trend with no near term catalysts in sight. Hot Topic will obviously need to take deep markdowns in order to clear unwanted holiday product.

Jim Allchin

We're going to blow out the holiday season.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Charles Baudelaire

The People adore authority.

Cesare Lombroso

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Kim Rhodes

It's pure vanity that keeps me eating healthy, but I adore fried food and sugar.

Khloe Kardashian

I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.

Jane Asher

I adore food and always have.

Sathya Baba

WOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land, women are adored and revered.

Diane von Furstenberg

I adore dark chocolate.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.