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Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
Shane Leslie on saint patricks day

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce on saint patricks day

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
Lara Flynn Boyle on saint patricks day

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge on saint patricks day

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
Fiona Shaw on saint patricks day

Be thankful for what you have you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey on thanksgiving

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.
Jon Stewart on thanksgiving

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
William Blake on thanksgiving

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke on thanksgiving

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck on thanksgiving

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo on thanksgiving

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry on thanksgiving

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
W. Clement Stone on thanksgiving

Dear Lord we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander on thanksgiving

My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
Phyllis Diller on thanksgiving

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.
Konrad von Gesner on thanksgiving

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.
Storm Jameson on thanksgiving

Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
Kevin James on thanksgiving

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Marilu Henner on thanksgiving

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Richard Roeper on thanksgiving