We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Gratitude changes us.

Basically we teach our kids thankfulness.

All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

If every moment is sacred, and If you are amazed and in awe most of the time when you find yourself breathing and not crazy, then you are in a state of constant thankfulness, worship and humility.

For my parents, leaving the close social quarters of Abilene was like getting out of jail. They were not true West Texans; they had not come to love the unending monotony of mesquite barrens or the high, hot blue sky that made sunsets a matter of prayerful thankfulness.

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

I've never really understood attachment to a place for reasons of birth. That my mother happened to give birth to me in a certain place doesn't, to my mind, justify any thankfulness towards that place. It could have been anywhere.

I want to extend my gratitude and thankfulness to all those who care and love my family and myself, and our situation, especially the American people who show their care about the quality of justice as a universal value and I'm very grateful to all of you.

I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that the gifts of God should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens ... to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is how much has been escaped.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

And let us give thanks for Someone to thank.

I thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes ...

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.