T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Thanksgiving opens your heart to acknowledge that which is exceptional. It opens your eyes to see the wonders of the supernatural.”
Source: The Gift of Thanksgiving
“Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.”
“Thanksgiving season, embrace it with divine love and celebrate it with genuine gratitude.”
“Thanksgiving should be the first thought every new morning.”
“Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.”
Source: Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
“Thanksgiving transcends all thoughts.”
“Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.”
“Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.”
Source: You Better Not Cry: True Stories for Christmas
“Thanksgiving without tension is like a Thanksgiving without turkey. It can be done, but it is not the norm.”
“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
“Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.”
“Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.”
Source: Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes
“Thanksgiving, when the Indians said, "Well, this has been fun, but we know you have a long voyage back to England".”
“Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.”
“Thanksgiving-day, I fear, If one the solemn truth must touch, Is celebrated, not so much To thank the Lord for blessing o'er, As for the sake of getting more!”
“Thanksgiving-giving thanks in everything-prepares the way that God might show us His fullest salvation in Christ.”
Source: One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
“Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.”
“Thanksgiving. It's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is, we overeat. 'Hey, how about at Thanksgiving we just eat a lot?' 'But we do that every day!' 'Oh. What if we eat a lot with people that annoy the hell out of us?'”
“Thankyou,"Catherine said, the smile still hovering on her lips. "That is kind of you my lord. But i will never dance with you."
Which, ofcourse, made it the goal of leo's life.”
Source: Married by Morning
“Thankyou, you pushed me to the level where i am unable to feel anything and feeling it, is amazing!”
“Thankyou, your indifference pushed me to the level where i am unable to feel anything for you...and feeling is amazing!”
“Thankyou, your indifference pushed me to the level where i am unable to feel anything for you...and feeling it is amazing!”
“Thans is onze uitvoer bijna uitsluitend toevertrouwd aan vreemde handen. Men dient na te gaan, waarom het zoo is, en de middelen te zoeken om het geld, dat wij aan commissionarissen van Havre, Hamburg, Rotterdam of Londen geven, door Belgen te laten winnen en voor ons land te behouden. Ook dient men, zooals ik zegde, aanzienlijk te vermeerderen het bedrag onzer plaatsingen in den vreemde en deze zouden, naar het gevoelen onzer consuls, vertiendubbeld kunnen worden.”
“Thar's only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we're the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it's a mighty sobering thought. (Porkypine)”
“Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.”
“That "I don't give a darn" attitude is probably why I've shot so many good final rounds over the years when I started the day a few shots behind with nothing to lose. . . and maybe that's why I've shot so many bad last rounds when I was ahead and knew I couldn't afford a mistake.”
“That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.”
“That 'change makes us uncomfortable' is now one of the most widely promoted, widely accepted, and under-considered half-truths around. [I]t is not change by itself that makes us uncomfortable; it is not even change that involves taking on something very difficult. Rather, it is change that leaves us feeling defenseless before the dangers we 'know' to be present that causes us anxiety.”
“That 'simple desire' to share something meant that we could enter the world of language without words, where everything is always clear and there is no danger of being misinterpreted.”
“That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”
Source: Speedboat
“That (sex) was the most fun I ever had without laughing.”
“That ... is how the world moves: Not like an arrow, but a boomerang.”
Source: Invisible Man
“That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.”
Source: The Empire of Business
“That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”
“That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.”
“That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.”
“That [Pagani] Zonda, really! It’s like a lion in orange dungarees. Kind of fierce, but ridiculous all at the same time.”
“That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.”
Source: Scribble scribble: notes on the media
“That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.”
“That [silk-screen process experience] carried over when I returned from the Army and took more graphic classes at the Institute. And Alix [MacKenzie] and I actually began to produce a line of textiles, which had silk-screen patterns on them.”
“That a burnt child loves the fire'
'I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“That a country, [England], eminently distinguished for its mechanical and manufacturing ingenuity, should be indifferent to the progress of inquiries which form the highest departments of that knowledge on whose more elementary truths its wealth and rank depend, is a fact which is well deserving the attention of those who shall inquire into the causes that influence the progress of nations.”
Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).
“That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”
“That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.”
Source: The Story of Civilization...: Caesar and Christ
“That a free, or at least an unsaturated acid usually exists in the stomachs of animals, and is in some manner connected with the important process of digestion, seems to have been the general opinion of physiologists till the time of Spallanzani. This illustrious philosopher concluded, from his numerous experiments, that the gastric fluids, when in a perfectly natural state, are neither acid nor alkaline. Even Spallanzani, however, admitted that the contents of the stomach are very generally acid; and this accords not only with my own observation, but with that, I believe, of almost every individual who has made any experiments on the subject. ... The object of the present communication is to show, that the acid in question is the muriatic [hydrochloric] acid, and that the salts usually met with in the stomach, are the alkaline muriates.”
“That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!”
Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
“That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.”
“That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.”
Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed.”
Source: The Republic and Other Works
“That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.”
Source: The Mortal Storm