thank quotes

I'd like to thank all those who made this possibleespecially Jack Warner

-Julie originally Julia ElizabethWells Andrews
  Speech at the Oscar ceremony when she won an Academy Award for her role in Mary Poppins, 5  Apr. Warner had rejected her for the screen role of Eliza in My Fair Lady, although she had played it to great acclaim on the stage, preferring Audrey Hepburn whose singing had tobe dubbed.  Andrews had instead taken the part in Mary Poppins.

I think the dying prayat the last not please but thank you as a guest thanks his host at the door.

- Annie Dillard
  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.15.

I am not going to thank anybodybecause I did it all myself.

- Spike Milligan
   Acceptance speech after being awarded the British Comedy Award for Lifetime  Achievement.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of vocabularyand syntax to mislead their weak minds.

- Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
  'The Psychology of Advertising', in The Spectator,19 Nov.

Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices; Who from our mother's arms Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours to-day.

- Catherine Winkworth
  Lyra Germanica (translated from the original German of Martin Rinkart 'Nun danket alle Gott', c.1636).