Thanked Quotes

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

Whenever we have thanked these men and women for what they have done for us, without exception they have expressed gratitude for having the chance to help - because they grew as they served.

Apparently, I said what a lot of people are thinking and a lot of people have thanked me.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

It may sound terrible, but I often say that the military saved me from a conventional life in the United States and I've never really thanked them for it, because I haven't exactly been pro-military in my work.

You know, I was a regular on the Friday afternoon drill squad. Um, which... The year after I left school, I went back and thanked the sergeant major because I was so fit.

My husband was an Air Force pilot man years ago and recently an Air Force wife thanked me for my service! I laughed and said, 'No, I wasn't in the Air Force, my husband was!' And she smiled and said, 'If he served, you served. And thank you.'

God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

Our ships, God be thanked, have received little hurt.