Thanksgiving Being Thankful Quotes

#1. Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for.

John Templeton

#2. His Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important but that we always consider Him directly, immediately, and without intermediary in all our actions.

Vincent De Paul

#3. My goal is to get people thinking and trying to wrap their heads around the amazing things that have been achieved and to dream about what will be achieved.

Neil Turok

#4. Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. Then again, I threatened if my stomach got my head chopped off I'd never feed it again.

Nicole Peeler

#6. I suppose that one of my greatest problem lays in the fact that I have assumed a blessing to be something that is mine for the taking, verses being something that by sheer exposure to it takes me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#7. My path was simple: Follow your passion. Pour in your heart and soul. Settle for nothing less than excellence. And with enough hard work and faith in yourself, you can realize your dream.

Robert Mondavi

#8. The older I get the more things I gotta leave behind.

Sylvester Stallone

#9. It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

Cornelius Plantinga

#10. It was definitely a scary situation and I was frightened for my husband, but that is no excuse. I was disrespectful to the officer who was just doing his job. I have nothing but respect for the police and I'm very sorry for my behavior.

Reese Witherspoon

#11. It's not about some principled debate as to whether I should focus on what I have, or on what I don't have. Rather, it's about being thankful that I have the privilege to enjoy the former, and the opportunity to contemplate the latter.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

John Clayton

#13. Hopefully, commercials are fun to do and watch so maybe there are more for me in the future.

Dante Hall

#14. [when asked about what he was most thankful about]: Being alive. After heart surgery, you dig that part. Breath, family and friends are just amazing. Just to have a second shot is pretty great!

Robin Williams

#15. The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to.

John Baillie

#16. There is no Thanksgiving back in the old country where I come from. You know why? Because being thankful is a sin.

Craig Ferguson

#17. The problem ain't what people know. It's what people know that ain't so that's the problem.

Will Rogers

#18. Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

Tariq Ramadan

#19. At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial ... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

Christie Brinkley

#20. What are you most thankful for?" she asked.
My reply came easily. "Being too blessed to have any hope of answering that question.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#21. Damn it. I mean, darn it. I thought the church was on fire. I'm so sorry. How do you clean up holy water? Is it like communion? Do you have to lick it off the floor? Can I help you?

Debra Anastasia

#22. I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

Sonia Sotomayor

#23. Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life ...

Penelope Gilliatt

#24. A balanced guest list of mixed elements is to a successful party what the seasoning is to a culinary triumph.

Letitia Baldrige

#25. It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Marcus Aurelius

#26. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.

L.M. Montgomery