Thankful Quotes
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Things to be thankful for: Kittens. Summer break. Taylor Swift ballads. Click on any thankful quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.
"'Cause it's a Wednesday night, baby, and I'm alive."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"A bit of talcum is always walcum."Source: Reflection on Babies | Author: Ogden Nash
"Adrian!"Source: Rocky | Speaker: Rocky Balboa
"All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift
"Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?"Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys
"And in that moment, I swear we were infinite."Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower | Author: Stephen Chbosky
"Backstreet's back, all right!"Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys
"Butts."Source: Bob's Burgers | Speaker: Tina Belcher
"Come with me if you want to live."Source: The Terminator | Speaker: Kyle Reese
"Earn this. Earn it."Source: Saving Private Ryan | Speaker: Captain James Miller
"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year?"Source: Seasons of Love | Speaker: Cast of Rent
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms
"Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball."Source: Good Golly Miss Molly | Speaker: Little Richard
"He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich."Source: "Down Under" | Speaker: Men at Work
"Hold me closer, tiny dancer."Source: Tiny Dancer | Speaker: Elton John
"Hope is the thing with feathers—That perches in the soul"Source: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers | Author: Emily Dickinson
"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful."Source: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci | Author: Leonardo da Vinci
"I am Groot."Source: Guardians of the Galaxy | Speaker: Groot
"I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I don't even want a boyfriend."Source: Girls | Speaker: Hannah Horvath
"I like big butts and I cannot lie."Source: Baby Got Back | Speaker: Sir Mix-a-Lot
"I love it when a plan comes together."Source: The A-Team | Speaker: John "Hannibal" Smith
"I love you more than a wasp can sting."Source: To My Valentine | Author: Ogden Nash
"I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters—two beautiful, intelligent, Black young women—playing with their dogs on the White House lawn."Source: 2016 Democratic National Convention Speech | Speaker: Michelle Obama
"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice
"I'm everything I am because you loved me."Source: Because You Loved Me | Speaker: Celine Dion
"I'm singin' in the rain, just singin' in the rain."Source: Singin' in the Rain | Speaker: Don Lockwood
"I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, watching the tide roll away."Source: (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay | Speaker: Otis Redding
"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor
"It's going down. I'm yelling, "Timber!""Source: "Timber" | Speaker: Pitbull and Kesha
"Let them eat cake!"Source: Marie Antoinette | Speaker: Marie Antoinette
"Love fades away. But things...things are forever."Source: Parks and Recreation | Speaker: Tom Haverford
"Makes me that much stronger"Source: "Fighter" | Speaker: Christina Aguilera
"Maybe Christmas, perhaps...means a little bit more!"Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Author: Dr. Seuss
"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time."Source: "Maybe I'm Amazed" | Speaker: Paul McCartney
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."Source: Casablanca | Speaker: Rick Blaine
"Of all the souls I have encountered in my travels, his was the most human."Source: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan | Speaker: James Kirk
"Oh Philadelphia freedom, shine on me, I love you."Source: "Philadelphia Freedom" | Speaker: Elton John
"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."Source: 1994 Inaugural Address | Speaker: Nelson Mandela
"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."Source: The Fault in Our Stars | Author: John Green
"That'll do pig. That'll do."Source: Babe | Speaker: Farmer Hoggett
"That's when you know you've found somebody really special. When you can just…comfortably share silence."Source: Pulp Fiction | Speaker: Mia Wallace
"The record shows I took the blows and did it my way."Source: "My Way" | Speaker: Frank Sinatra
"There was something in the air that night, the stars were bright, Fernando."Source: Fernando | Speaker: ABBA
"This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it."Source: Psalm 118:24 | Author: The Psalmist
"Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter."Source: Dr. Seuss | Speaker: Dr. Seuss
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."Source: In Memoriam | Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism | Author: Oscar Wilde
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Whisper words of wisdom, let it be."Source: "Let It Be" | Speaker: The Beatles
"You ain't never had a friend like me!"Source: Friend Like Me | Speaker: Genie
"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find you get what you need."Source: You Can't Always Get What You Want | Speaker: The Rolling Stones
"You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not."Source: My Sister's Keeper | Author: Jodi Picoult
"You're the sanest man that ever walked into this courtroom."Source: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town | Speaker: Judge May