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.

William Shakespeare

Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute.

Alan Ball

It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

Chris Brown

Gratitude is the key that unlocks wonder.

Chip Conley

Café Gratitude offers an experience that expands what is possible for all people–a great recipe for business. I've watched Café Gratitude grow and have experienced both the flavors of their food and their commitment to providing a sacred experience for their customers.

Chip Conley

Social scientists have found that the fastest way to feel happiness is to practice gratitude.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.

Chen Guangcheng

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

Charles Lamb

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.

William Shakespeare

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.

Carlos Tevez

I would like to thank my coach for believing in me

Billy Sheehan

I'm very honored and thankful if someone says something nice about my playing, but in general I'm very critical of what I do.

Elizabeth I

I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.

Brenda Lee

I still don't look at myself as a star. I've always had a thankful heart.

Charles Spurgeon

Thankfulness makes much of little.

Brene Brown

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

William Shakespeare

You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!

William Shakespeare

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised: