(1081 quotes found)
“[on his mother] So at 96 I'm thanking her for her genes.”
Clint Eastwood
“Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.”
Whitey Herzog
“Truly, I'm not joking when I thank my lucky stars for the awful operation I had, since it has made me young again and philosophical which means that I don't want to fritter away the new lease on life I've been given.”
Henri Matisse
“For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.”
Storm Jameson
“So thank you for reminding me about the importance of being a good mom and a great volunteer as well.”
George W. Bush
“Most powerful... ONE word: CONGRATULATIONS. TWO words: THANK YOU. THREE words: I LOVE YOU.”
Lorrin L. Lee
“All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.”
Daniel Defoe
“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; / Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.”
Bible
“A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful”
Book of Common Prayer
“One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.”
J. Robert Moskin