Thanksgiving Being Thankful Quotes & Sayings

I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit. — Jeremy Sisto

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

Unless your kid is Pele Jr., they're not going to be able to feed themselves from soccer. If your kid knows how to play soccer, but not make dinner, you have done them a disservice. — Alton Brown

At any other time, we would have been sheep in the company of wolves. But now, we have what people might call "presence". — Susan Ee

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess. — Helen Oyeyemi

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

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

To savor the simple privilege that every day I have a sunrise to bathe in, a storehouse of opportunities to romp through, the thick wrap of relationships to keep me warm, a God who meticulously tends to every detail round about me, and it all costs me not a dime. What madness would keep me from being eternally thankful for all that? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

It only takes one person to change your life -- you. — Ruth Casey

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

It's not tipping I believe in. It's overtipping. — Steve Martin

The very fact that a man is thankful implies someone to be thankful to. — John Baillie

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

[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

Thanksgiving is not some formulaic action based on a tedious ledger that neatly tallies everything I have received so I can determine if being thankful is warranted or not. Rather, it's appreciating the fact that I have already received the privilege of living life which in and of itself will fill the whole of my ledger for the whole of my life. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to. — Oren Lyons

Thanksgiving being thankful or grateful results in more to be thankful for. — John Templeton

I like Kelela. I like Twigs. I love the more old school; I hate to say old school, but I love Peaches; I love Peaches, I love Cat Power. And there's constantly new things coming up. But there's something so beautifully powerful - for me being a woman, when there's a woman doing something, it really strikes a chord. — Neneh Cherry

All wilderness seems to be full of tricks and plans to drive and draw us up into God's light. — John Muir

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

The sort of fellow whose funeral's orations are all on the theme of Well, that's a relief. — Lois McMaster Bujold

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

My family were really hard-working, blue-collar people, and I didn't know the idea or concept of working and having fun. I thought you just worked and made money to support your family. — Debra Monk

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

In the mercy of God, the little thing done with humility will enable us to be found in the same place as the saints who have labored much and been true servants of God. — Dorotheus Of Gaza

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults. — Rick Riordan

Swallowing, he peered down at Noelle, floored by the sheer calm reflecting back at him. "You okay, babe?"
She rolled her eyes. "Of course. What do you think I am, a pansy-ass damsel who weeps at the first sign of trouble? — Elle Kennedy