Thanksgiving Flower Quotes

#1. Mozart's pet starling once revised a phrase he wrote. The bird sang it after he played it on the piano, but changed all the sharps to flats. Mozart described it happening in the margin of the score. 'That was beautiful!' he wrote. When the bird died, he sang at its funeral, and read a poem to it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#2. Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

Terry Brooks

#3. As much as I feel sad, I think that not knowing is what really bothers me.

Stephen Chbosky

#4. Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

William Shakespeare

#5. As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.

Henry Ward Beecher

#6. I ain't no author, man ... my writing skills are not of 'New York Times' best-seller quality, trust and believe it ain't. My vocabulary ain't.

Steve Harvey

#7. I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm.

Edward Hirsch

#8. For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to
a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.

Helen Keller

#9. My teachers used to tell me you need to learn to adjust to fit the situation. Don't just do what you've always done because it might not always work.

Buck Brannaman