Thank You famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Thank you, Hollywood, for allowing me to be part of your group.
-- Aaron Paul -
That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
-- Albert Einstein -
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
-- Albert Pike -
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
"This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding."
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -
Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality.
-- Alfred Agache -
I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.
-- Alice Herz-Sommer -
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
-- Alice Walker -
As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.
-- Allen West -
The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.
-- Amy Grant -
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France -
The scoreboard said I lost today, but what the scoreboard doesn't say is what it is I have found. Over the last 21 years, I have found loyalty. You have pulled for me on the court and also in life. I found inspiration. You have willed me to succeed, sometimes even in my lowest moments, and I've found generosity. You have given me your shoulders to stand on to reach for my dreams, dreams I could never have reached without you.
-- Andre Agassi -
I wouldn't want to be a talk show host. That's another awkward compliment people make. 'You should have your own talk show.' And I think, no thank you.
-- Andy Richter -
My friend, Sue Ann, in college pulled me aside and said, 'Honey I love you but you have got to start waxing your eyebrows. They look wild!' So thank you , that kinda changed my life.
-- Angela Kinsey -
Honestly, after about three years on a show, you're like, 'Thank you very much for giving me a step up. Now can I go do movies?'
-- AnnaLynne McCord -
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.
-- Ari Fleischer -
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
-- Aron Ralston -
During 65 years, I have walked the path of duty and discipline... And today, looking back at that long path of service, my soldier's heart stirs and murmurs from deep within: Thank you. Thank you, my homeland.
-- Augusto Pinochet -
We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.
-- Ayad Allawi -
The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.
-- Barack Obama -
You have to love your children unselfishly. That's hard. But it's the only way.
-- Barbara Bush -
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
-- Barry White -
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
-- Ben Stein -
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
-- Bernard Meltzer -
I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.
-- Bill Kreutzmann -
The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.
-- Bob Kerrey -
I think, at the end of the day, the most special thing is when a mother or a gay person comes up to you and just thanks you and calls you a hero. They say I'm a hero, but I'm just a concerned citizen and I'm just doing the right thing.
-- Brendon Ayanbadejo -
We get a ton of email; everybody does now. It gives us a kind of a pulse that you can feel. We hear people saying, thank you for being fair, for being balanced.
-- Brit Hume -
We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
-- Bruce Vento -
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
-- C.J. Sansom -
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
-- Camille Claudel -
Stop wishing to merit anyone's gratitude or thinking that anyone can become grateful.
-- Catullus -
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-- Charles Dickens -
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.
-- Charles Lamb -
Every time I say thanks or thank you to a random person they blush and say you're welcome.
-- Charlie Morgan -
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
-- Charlotte Bronte -
It is weird. People will say, 'Oh my God, I love you.' And I'll say, 'Oh, that's so sweet. Thank you.' And the people who are walking around with me for the first time will say, 'I don't understand what happened. Somebody just told you they love you. I don't even understand what that means.'
-- Cheryl Hines -
There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.
-- Confucius -
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
-- Conrad Burns -
Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.
-- Conrad Gessner -
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
-- Cynthia Ozick -
When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
-- Dalai Lama -
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
-- Dalai Lama -
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.
-- Dale Dauten -
The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called 'truth'.
-- Dan Rather -
As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
-- Daniel Craig -
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
-- Daniel Defoe -
So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
-- Danny DeVito -
By looking up, by raising our eyes above our limited horizon, we are more likely to perceive the blessings hidden in affliction.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.
-- Deborah Norville -
Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.
-- Deepak Chopra -
That's what I learned. I learned I couldn't shed light on love other than to feel its comings and goings and be grateful.
-- Diane Keaton -
In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
-- Doris Lessing -
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
-- Douglas MacArthur -
It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, for God's sake, we've admitted that we were experimenting on our veterans with mustard gas. So there is no security question. It can't possibly be the reason.
-- Dwight Schultz -
I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
-- e. e. cummings -
It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
-- Ed Asner -
I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love.
-- Edward M Hays -
More and more people are able to access information - thank goodness we have the Internet and if you are interested you can find things. Which is different than even 20 years ago.
-- Edwidge Danticat -
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
-- Eileen Caddy -
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
-- Elie Wiesel -
There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
-- Elizabeth Bibesco -
Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important.
-- Elle Macpherson -
There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'
-- Ellen Barkin -
I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.
-- Ennio Morricone -
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
-- Epictetus -
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
-- Epictetus -
I mean you got to thank your parents for giving you the right genes.
-- Eric Heiden -
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.
-- Eric Hoffer -
Most of us forget to take time for wonder, praise and gratitude until it is almost too late. Gratitude is a many-colored quality, reaching in all directions. It goes out for small things and for large; it is a God-ward going.
-- Faith Baldwin -
Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.
-- Felix Frankfurter -
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
-- Frances Farmer -
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
-- Francine Prose -
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
-- Fred Rogers -
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
-- Gail Godwin -
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
-- Garrison Keillor -
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
-- Garrison Keillor -
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
-- Garrison Keillor -
You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.
-- Gavin MacLeod -
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
-- George Elliston -
Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
-- George M. Cohan -
I can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones.
-- George Strait -
This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.
-- George Strait -
The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.
-- George Wald -
Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.
-- Guy Lafleur