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Inspire Your Thanksgiving Posts with Meaningful Quotes

Thanksgiving is getting closer! Do you plan to post to your social media platforms? Are you searching for the right words to add to your posts? Adding a quote is a great way to enhance your posts. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following quotes for Thanksgiving.

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  1. “The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” — Norman Vincent Peale
  2. “Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.” – Nigel Hamilton
  3. “We should just be thankful for being together. I think that’s what they mean by Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown.” – Marcie, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  4. “In November, people are good to each other. They carry pies to each other’s homes and talk by crackling woodstoves, sipping mellow cider. They travel very far on a special November day just to share a meal with one another and to give thanks for their many blessings.” — Cynthia Rylant
  5. Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.” – Amy Grant
  6. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  7. “We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.” – John F. Kennedy
  8. “Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” — William Arthur Ward
  9. “To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything.” – Thomas Merton
  10. “Home is people. Not a place.” ― Robin Hobb
  11. “If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.”—Tony Snow.
  12. “Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.” – W. T. Purkiser
  13. “Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.” — Kevin James
  14. “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
  15. “The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life.”—Steve Goodier
  16. “Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.” – Willard Scott
  17. “The most important thing in the world is family and love.” — John Wooden
  18. “Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton
  19. “I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal and maybe toast.” ― Charlie Brown, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  20. “Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.” – Rumi
  21. “Although Thanksgiving comes but once a year, every day should be a day of Thanks.” -Monique Hammond
  22. “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
  23. “I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.” — Henry David Thoreau
  24. “Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer.” – Maya Angelou
  25. “When one has a grateful heart, life is so beautiful.” ― Roy Bennett
  26. “I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.”—Reba McEntire
  27. “Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.”—E.P. Powell
  28. “Reflect upon your present blessings.”—Charles Dickens
  29. “If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share. ”—W. Clement Stone
  30. “A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  31. “Find gratitude in the little things and your well of gratitude will never run dry.” ― Antonia Montoya
  32. “Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.” — Sanchita Pandey
  33. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”—Ernest Hemingway
  34. “When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.” — Maria Shriver
  35. “I am happy because I’m grateful. I choose to be grateful. That gratitude allows me to be happy.” – Wil Arnett
  36. “Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” — Margaret Cousins
  37. “If a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” — Frank A. Clark
  38. “Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.”—Lawrence Welk
  39. Having a place to go is a home. Having someone to love is a family. Having both is a blessing.” — Donna Hedges
  40. “We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”—Neal A. Maxwell
  41. “Gratitude can turn a meal into a feast.”—Melody Beattie
  42. “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.”—Willie Nelson
  43. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life” — Melody Beattie
  44. “Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.” – Joyce Giraud
  45. “Gratitude, help us to see what is there instead of what isn’t.” — Annette Bridges
  46. “The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?” — Nora Ephron
  47. “There is no sincerer love than the love of food.”—George Bernard Shaw
  48. “I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.” Marcus Samuelsson
  49. “What I love about Thanksgiving is that it’s purely about getting together with friends or family and enjoying food. It’s really for everybody, and it doesn’t matter where you’re from.”—Daniel Humm
  50. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity … it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ― Melody Beattie
  51. When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.” — C.S. Lewis
  52. “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”—Aesop
  53. “There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.”—Joyce Meyer
  54. “You never know where a blessing can come from.” — Teena Marie
  55. “Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”—Marcel Proust
  56. “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” ― Germany Kent
  57. “God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say ‘thank you?’”—William Arthur Ward
  58. “I think in every lesson there’s a blessing, and there’s so many blessings from all the lessons I’ve had to go through in life.” — Alonzo Mourning
  59. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” — Epicurus
  60. It’s never too late. Don’t focus on what was taken away. Find something to replace it, and acknowledge the blessing you have.” — Drew Barrymore

Happy Thanksgiving!

Quotes for Veterans Day

Today, November 11, 2024, is Veterans Day. Using quotes on social media is one of the easiest ways to honor and celebrate the holiday. If you are searching for the right words to say, consider one of the following quotes for Veterans Day.

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  1. “May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.” — Peter Marshall
  2. “This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.”‒ Elmer Davis
  3. “America’s veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.” -Steve Buyer
  4. “Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  5. “One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, one Nation, evermore!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
  6. “How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
    ‒ Maya Angelou
  7. “Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.” – Michel de Montaigne
  8. “Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.” – Douglas MacArthur
  9. “Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country’s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.” -Abraham Lincoln
  10. “We’re blessed with the opportunity to stand for something — for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to. And we have good reason to be hopeful and optimistic.” — Ronald Reagan
  11. “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” ‒ Dwight D. Eisenhower
  12. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
  13. “Freedom is never free.” – Unknown
  14. “When our perils are past, shall our gratitude sleep?” –  Michel de Montaigne
  15. “The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their lives to their country and deserve to be recognized for their commitment.” – Judd Gregg
  16. “Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America’s heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.” — John Quincy Adams
  17. “Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude.” – Harry S. Truman
  18. “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry Truman
  19. “And we must never forget that it is the mighty arm of the American warrior — never bending, never breaking, never yielding — generation after generation that secured for us the blessings of a nation that still stands today as the beacon of liberty, democracy, and justice around the world.” — Joe Biden
  20. “The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” -Jeff Miller
  21. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” – G.K. Chesterton
  22. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” — John F. Kennedy
  23. “On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.” — Dan Lipinski
  24. “Never was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill
  25. “Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don’t have that problem.” – Ronald Reagan
  26. “Heroism doesn’t always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history.” — Mary Roach
  27. “America without her soldiers would be like God without his angels.” — Claudia Pemberton
  28. “We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.” — Cynthia Ozick
  29. “I respect every soldier, from every country, who serves beside us in the hard work of history. America is grateful, and America will not forget.” — George W. Bush
  30. “Spending time with America’s soldiers is always inspiring.” — John Boehner
  31. “These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror.” — Michael N. Castle
  32. “But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.” — Nick Lampson
  33. “True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” – Arthur Ashe
  34. “Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  35. “America’s veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.”
    ‒ John Doolittle
  36. “ A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan
  37. “…The military pledges to leave no soldier behind. As a nation, let it be our pledge…that we leave no veteran behind.” – Dan Lipinski
  38. “We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.” — George Orwell
  39. “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.” – Jose Narosky
  40. “It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” —Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.
  41. “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the Veterans of earlier wars were treated and appreciated by their nation.”
    ‒ George Washington
  42. “Americans should always honor our veterans. At this moment, we especially need the example of their character. And we need a new generation to set examples of its own, examples in service and sacrifice and courage. These veterans have shaped our history, and with their values, your generation will help guide our future.”‒ George W. Bush
  43. “The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.” — Bill Frist
  44. “Whenever the world makes you cynical; whenever you seek true humility, and true selflessness — look to a veteran.” — Barack Obama

Happy Veterans Day to all who have served. God bless!

Fall Into October: Meaningful Quotes for the Season

October is here! Are you ready for a new month? October brings Autumn into full view. The month is perfect for posting fall-themed photos to your social media platforms. If you are searching for the right words, consider the following October quotes for your personal or business posts.

  1. “I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers” — Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ann of Green Gables
  2. “He loved October. Had always loved it. There was something sad and beautiful about it— the ending and beginning of things” — Jacqueline Woodson
  3. “October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter” — Nova Beir 
  4. “October is a fallen leaf, but it is also the wider horizon more clearly seen” — Hal Borlan
  5. “You don’t waste October sunshine. Soon the old autumn sun would bed down in cloud blankets, and there would be weeks of gray rain before it finally decided to snow.” — Katherine Arden
  6. “October had the tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” — Sarah Guillory
  7. “October is the month for painted leaves…. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight.” — Henry David Thoreau
  8. “There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.” — Nathanial Hawthrone
  9. “In October, my heart is filled with love and the beauty of fall.” — Unknown
  10. “Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves. We have had our summer evenings; now for October eves!” — Humbert Wolfe
  11. “In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.” — John Burroughs
  12. “The clear light that belongs to October was making the landscape radiant.” — Florence Bone
  13. “Hello, October! Let’s get cozy and enjoy the magic of autumn.” — Unknown
  14. “Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.” — Carol Bishop Hippes
  15. “The first day of October brings a promise of change and new beginnings.” — Unknown
  16. “October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.” — Henry Ward Beecher
  17. “I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.” — W.S. Merwin
  18.  “October turned my maple’s leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from out the twig’s weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
  19. “October is my favorite month because it’s when the weather finally stops being so clingy.” — Unknown
  20. “October is a symphony of permanence and change.” — Bonaro W. Overstreet
  21. “Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
  22. “I love October because it means I can finally stop pretending to enjoy summer.” — Unknown
  23. “What could be more exciting than an October day? It’s your birthday, Fourth of July and Christmas all rolled into one.” — Peggy Toney Horton
  24. “The trees are in their autumn beauty / The woodland paths are dry / Under the October twilight the water / Mirrors a still sky.” – William Butler Yeats
  25. “As October ends, the leaves remind us how beautiful it is to let go.” — Unknown
  26. “As October fades away, let’s cherish the moments we had and look forward to November.” — Unknown
  27. “As October fades away, let’s cherish the moments we had and look forward to November.” — Unknown
  28. “We were letting go of October, relinquishing color, readying ourselves for streets lacquered with ice, the town closed like a walnut, locked inside the cold.” — Mark Perlberg
  29. “Farewell, October! You’ve been a month of magic and transformation.” — Unknown
  30. “As the leaves change, let’s embrace new challenges and opportunities at work.” — Unknown
  31. “In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees are bare to the mild heavens, and the red leaves bestrew the road, and you can feel the breath of winter, morning and evening—no days so calm, so tenderly solemn, and with such a reverent meekness in the air.” — Alexander Smith
  32. “I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.” — Leif Enger
  33. October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.” — Sarah Guillory
  34. “October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!” — Rainbow Rowell

Happy October!

Friday the 13th Quotes: Superstitions, Luck, and Positivity

Happy Friday the 13th! Are you superstitious or fear the day? Known as Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friday the 13th causes fear in millions of people around the world. Whether you fear the date or not, Friday the 13th is the perfect time to post. Share something on your social media platforms. Adding a quote is essential for drawing attention to your post.

 If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following Friday the 13th quotes.

  1. “Don’t be superstitious. Nothing will happen on Friday the 13th that cannot happen on Saturday the 14th.” – Unknown
  2. “Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.” – John Dewey
  3. “Don’t walk under any ladders, don’t break any mirrors, Don’t spill any salt, And don’t walk by any black cats. Happy Friday the 13th!” – Unknown
  4. “Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.” – Tig Notaro
  5. “Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive, and irrational-but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?’ – Judith Viorst
  6. “Here’s the thing about luck…you don’t know if it’s good or bad until you have some perspective.” – Alice Hoffman
  7. “The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” – Channing Pollock
  8. “Friday the 13th is quickly becoming my least favorite day of the year.” – Ashley Tisdale
  9. “Tomorrow is Friday the 13th. It’s gonna be another blessed day for God’s people, just like every other day.” Unknown
  10. “It’s Friday the 13th. Just warning you all before you make any weekend arrangements for wood cabins by lake.” – Unknown
  11. “Friday the 13th, that’s the day that hell raised.” – Lil Wayne
  12. “In reality, there’s no such thing as bad luck. Friday the 13th is just a day like any other day.” – Michael Feldman
  13. “The notion that Thirteen is a generally unlucky number has not been found earlier than 1852. Fridays, however, have been regarded as unlucky since medieval times.” – Steve Roud
  14. “Friday 13th is only bad luck if you choose it to be.” – Denise Mansfield
  15. “I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.” – Michael Scott, ‘The Office’
  16. “A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.” — Groucho Marx
  17. “And on a Friday fell all this mischance.” – Chaucer
  18. “On Friday the 13th weird things are supposed to happen…Maybe I’ll get into a relationship. Happy Friday the 13th!” – Unknown
  19. “Fear of Friday the 13th one of the most popular myths in science is called paraskavedekatriaphobia as well as friggatriskaidekaphobia. Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13.” – Unknown
  20. “Today is Friday the 13th. Try not to be a teenage girl in her underwear at night at a deserted summer camp today.” – Unknown
  21. “Every time I’ve won an award I’ve been seated in either the 13th seat, the 13th row, the 13th section or row M, which is the 13th letter.” — Taylor Swift
  22. “You’re doomed! You’re all doomed!” — Friday the 13th
  23. “Just an FYI: Thursday the 12th is just as rare as Friday the 13th.” – Unknown
  24. “Very superstitious, writings on the wall, very superstitious, ladders ’bout to fall, Thirteen-month-old baby, broke the lookin’ glass, seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past.” – Stevie Wonder
  25. “Happy Friday the 13th! Don’t look what’s under your bed tonight & don’t turn off the light. You don’t know what’s coming. Have a good day!” – Unknown
  26. “It’s Friday the 13th! It’s only bad luck if you put it in your head. Think it’s just another day & stay positive. Have faith with God!” – Unknown

Have a great Friday the 13th!

Remembering 9/11: Quotes to Honor the Day

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Do you plan to post a remembrance for the anniversary of 9/11 also known as Patriot Day? Adding a quote to your personal or business social post is an easy way to remember the events of 9/11.

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  1. “What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”— Author David Levithan
  2. “September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.” – Bill Frist
  3. “With almost no time to decide, [your loved ones] gave the entire country an incalculable gift. They saved the Capitol from attack. They saved God knows how many lives. They saved the terrorists from claiming the symbolic victory of smashing the center of American government. … They allowed us to survive as a country that could fight terror and still maintain liberty and still welcome people from all over the world from every religion and race and culture as long as they shared our values, because ­ordinary people given no time at all to decide did the right thing.”— President Bill Clinton in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2011
  4. “September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.” – Noam Chomsky
  5. It was the worst day we have ever seen, but it brought out the best in all of us.”
    —Senator John Kerry
  6.  “If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” — Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2002
  7. “Americans never quit.” — Douglas MacArthur
  8. “The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead, we have emerged stronger and more unified. We feel renewed devotion to the principles of political, economic, and religious freedom, the rule of law, and respect for human life. We are more determined than ever to live our lives in freedom.” — Rudy Giuliani
  9. “These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people has been moved to defend a great nation.” – Former President George W. Bush on Sept. 11, 2001.
  10. For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.” — Deepak Chopra
  11. “Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.” — Barack Obama
  12. “Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.” – Marianne Williamson
  13. “I may never know the answers to the questions that plagued me after 9/11. But I know if we lean on God and each other, we will be guided to a better, brighter future.” – Michael Hingson, 9/11 survivor
  14. “America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” — Harry S. Truman
  15. “True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.” — Clarence Darrow
  16. “When Americans lend a hand to one another, nothing is impossible. We’re not about what happened on 9/11. We’re about what happened on 9/12.” — Jeff Parness
  17. “September 11, 2001, seems destined to be the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes.” — Lt. Col. Shelton F. Leskford, U.S. Marine Corps
  18. “On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood, all Americans became New Yorkers.” George Pataki, former Governor of New York
  19. “What happened on September 11 compels us to focus on who we are as Americans, what we stand for, what really matters in our lives—family, friends, faith and freedom.” – Bob Taft
  20. “On September 11, I always take the day off. I want to be in a peaceful quiet place praying. It is a day I both mourn and celebrate.” — Genelle Guzman-McMillan, 9/11 Survivor
  21. “It was as if real life had been canceled for the day.” ― Jennifer Weiner
  22. “We will win this struggle—not for glory, nor wealth, nor power, but for justice, for freedom, and for peace… so help us God.” — Tom Harkin
  23. “We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.” —President Joe Biden
  24. “It’s the nature of the world that most people have moved on, but the people directly involved with 9/11, for them, twice a day it’s 9/11.” – Robert Reeg, former FDNY firefighter.
  25. “I give speeches around the country. I tell how Stanley and I made our way out of the tower. Life is precious, I tell them. It can be gone in an instant.” said Brian Clark, a 9/11 Survivor.
  26. “I still have the shoes I wore to work that day. The soles are melted and they’re caked in ash. I keep them in a shoebox with the word “deliverance” written all around it. They’re kind of like my ark, a reminder of God’s presence and the life I owe to him.” –Stanley Praimnath, a 9/11 Survivor
  27. “We got buried under more rubble, and I remember saying to myself, you can’t be lucky enough to survive it twice. And I started to pray. When the thing settled down, and the rubble stopped piling up on top of us, I was still alive.” – Frank Razzano, 9/11 Survivor
  28. “I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn’t a local thing. You could really feel the States become united. We became the United States of America.” – John Madden
  29. “September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America but to the world at large. The target of the terrorists was not only New York and Washington but the very values of freedom, tolerance, and decency which underpin our way of life.” – Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair
  30. “Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II’s Message to New York in the Aftermath of 9/11
  31. “I was walking in the street right next to the firemen going directly into the area from which everyone else was evacuating. I could see the fearless intensity in their faces. They were going to put out the fire and save lives.” – Bob Swierupski, a 9/11 Survivor
  32. Why am I here? What is the reason I was saved? They’re really unanswerable questions. After going through something like we did, all you can do is try to live your best life from day to day and move forward with gratitude.” — Brian Clark, a World Trade Center survivor
  33. “Where were you when the world stopped turning, on that September day?” — Alan Jackson

Use the above quotes to remember and honor the day.

Heartfelt Grandparents Day Quotes for Celebrating and Honoring

Happy Grandparents Day! Are you searching for the right words to celebrate and honor your grandparents? If you need inspiration, consider the following quotes for Grandparents Day.

  1. “Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.” — Margaret Mead
  2. “Love is the greatest gift one generation can leave another.” – Richard Garnett
  3. When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.” — Ogden Nash
  4. “Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels.” – Terri Guillemets
  5. “Grandparents can be very special resources. Just being close to them reassures a child, without words, about change and continuity, about what went before and what will come after.” — Fred Rogers
  6. “It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.” —Igor Stravinsky
  7. “Grandparents are a treasure in the family. Please, take care of your grandparents: love them and let them talk to your children!” — Pope Francis
  8. “My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.” – Henny Youngman
  9. “Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” —Alex Haley
  10.  “Grandparents are, without a doubt, some of the world’s best educators.” — Charles W. Shedd
  11. “The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.” —Sam Levenson
  12.  “Grandparents are always being told that they are living history to their grandchildren, that they give the children the reassurance of their roots. For me and many grandmothers I have talked to, it works the other way as well. They give us continuity.” — Ruth Goode
  13. “There is nothing more wonderful than the love and guidance a grandparent can give his or her grandchild.” —Edward Fays
  14. “Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven’t thought of yet.” —Gene Perret
  15. “Grandparents are like stars. You don’t always see them, but you know they’re there.” —Unknown
  16. “Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old; it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother.” — G. Norman Collie
  17. “No one who has not known that inestimable privilege can possibly realize what good fortune it is to grow up in a home where there are grandparents.” —Suzanne La Follette
  18. “Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.” — Fanny Fern
  19. “One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.” — Joy Hargrove
  20. “Becoming a grandparent is a second chance. For you have a chance to put to use all the things you learned the first time around and may have made mistakes on. It’s all love and no discipline. There’s no thorn in the rose.” —Joyce Brothers
  21. “Grandparents, like heroes, are as necessary to a child’s growth as vitamins.” —Joyce Allston
  22. “Every house needs a grandmother in it.” — Louisa May Alcott
  23. “Most grandmas have a touch of the scallywag.” — Helen Thomson
  24. “The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.” — Dave Barry
  25. “A grandmother is a safe haven.” — Suzette Haden Elgin
  26. “Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you’re just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.” — Pam Brown
  27. “Telling stories to my children that I was, in my turn, told by my parents and grandparents makes me feel part of something special and odd, part of the continuous stream of life itself.” —Neil Gaiman
  28. “I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I’ll be very happy.” — Caroline Kennedy
  29. “Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.” — Doug Larson
  30. “Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. Their time is generally not as encumbered and busy as the parents’, so books can be opened and read, stories can be told … Children then obtain a perspective of life which not only is rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength.” —Ezra Taft Benson

Happy Grandparents Day!

Quotes for August

August is here! Are you ready for a new month? Are you searching for quotes to add to your August social media posts? If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following quotes for August.

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  1. “August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.” – Victoria Erickson
  2. “Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.”—Kent Nerburn
  3. “August slipped away into a moment in time, ’cause it was never mine.” — Taylor Swift
  4. “This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.” – Sara Baume
  5. “Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.” – Denise Levertov
  6. “In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.” –  Henry David Thoreau
  7. “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” — Sylvia Plath
  8. “When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.” – Sarah Helen Whitman
  9. “Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  10. “If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.” — Sarah Dessen
  11. “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” – Jenny Han
  12. “I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven’t said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.” — Tove Jansson
  13. “August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.” — Joseph Wood Krutch
  14. “Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.” ― Lauren Oliver
  15. “August was nearly over — the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children. The days were not hot, but sunny and limpidly clear — the first sign of advancing autumn.” — Viktor Někrasov
  16. “The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning, The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.” — Natalie Babbitt
  17. “It was August, and the fields were high with corn.” ― Melanie Gideon
  18. “Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.” ― Rolf van der Wind
  19. “It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation . . . for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.” ― Max Heindel
  20. “August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forever’s, full of the sweetest intent.” – Meka Boyle
  21. “August, I’ll see you soon, under yellow moons, where I’ll gather what’s left of you.” – Rilo Kiley

Happy August! Have a great month!

Quotes for July

The first week of July is ending. Independence Day is over for another year. The time is perfect to concentrate on the long summer days. Are you searching for the right words to add to your social media posts? If you need inspiration, check out the following quotes for July.

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  1. “We can just let July be July, let the sun hang in the sky, clear your mind of all the things you’re waiting on.” — Lily Williams
  2. “If I had my way, I’d remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” – Roald Dahl
  3. “The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
  4. “I love how summer just wraps its arms around you like a warm blanket.” – Kellie Elmore
  5. “I drifted into a summer nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicada lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.” – Terri Guillemets
  6. “July is a blind date with summer.” – Hal Borland
  7. “Hot July brings cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers.” — Sara Coleridge
  8. “It’s July and I have hope in who I am becoming.” – Charlotte Eriksson
  9. “July is hollyhocks and hammocks, fireworks and vacations, hot and steamy weather, cool and refreshing swims, beach picnics, and vegetables all out of the garden.” – Jean Hersey
  10. “July, with its days of blue skies and time that seemingly stands still, holds a special place in my heart.” – Daisaku Ikeda
  11. “Let July be July. Let August be August. And let yourself just be even in the uncertainty. You don’t have to fix everything. You don’t have to solve everything. And you can still find peace and grow in the wild of changing things.” — Morgan Harper Nichols
  12. “The London trees are dusty-brown, Beneath the summer sky; My love, she dwells in London town, Nor leaves it in July.” – Amy Levy
  13. “The summer looks out from her brazen tower, through the flashing bars of July.” – Francis Thompson
  14. “Then came July like three o’clock in the afternoon, hot and listless and miserable.” – Allie Ray
  15. “Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens…” – Nicholas Sparks.
  16. “Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.” – Russel Baker
  17. “Let us live like flowers – wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.” – Ellen Everett
  18. “But here I am in July, and why am I thinking about Christmas pudding? Probably because we always pine for what we do not have. The winter seems cozy and romantic in the hell of summer, but hot beaches and sunlight are what we yearn for all winter.” — Joanna Franklin Bell
  19. “Welcome, July! In remaining of half-year, we must fly to reach high.” – Vaidesh Vardanth
  20. “If ant hills are high in July, the coming winter will be hard.” – American Folklore
  21. “Girls just wanna have sun.” – Unknown
  22.  “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.” – Neil Armstrong.
  23. “Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.” – Benjamin Alire Saenz
  24. “If July is good for bees, farmers can only be in good spirits.” – Anonymous
  25. “July is called the month of rains and a beautiful viewer of nature. Happy new month!” – Anonymous

Have a great rest of the month!

June Quotes: Inspiration for Your Social Media Posts

June is here! Are you ready for the warm months to begin? Do you need to add inspirational words to your posts? If you are searching for ideas, consider the following quotes for June.

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  1. “In June, the world is filled with the promise of fresh beginnings and endless possibilities.” — Unknown
  2. “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.” – Marie Lu
  3. “There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and this their ripe old age.” – Henry David Thoreau
  4. “June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.” –  Joan D. Chittister
  5. “I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
  6. “June is the month of dreams and growth, a time to chase your passions and let your heart soar.” — Unknown
  7. “June is the gateway to summer.” — Unknown
  8. “It is the month of June, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights salute the eyes and pleasant scents the noses.” — Nathaniel Parker Willis
  9. “These are the moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but win and the touch of a hand.” – Charles Morgan
  10. “Summer is a promissory note signed in June…” – Hal Borland
  11. “June is the pearl of summer, shining with warmth and joy.” – L.M. Montgomery
  12. “The sweetest days of summer were when June was new.” —  Margaret Oliphant
  13. “In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck
  14. “If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.” – Bern Williams
  15. “With the coming of June, a droning murmur seemed to fill the air.” —  Erick Setiawan
  16. “June is a love song written by nature.” – Patience Strong
  17. “In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.” – Aldo Leopold
  18.  “June had drawn out every leaf on the trees.” — Virginia Woolf
  19. “June, the month of all months, the month of leaves and roses, when pleasant sights greet the eyes and pleasant odors greet the nose.” — Charles Dickens
  20. “June is the time for dreams to take flight and soar into reality.” Emma Racine De Fleur
  21. “Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June.” – Al Bernstein
  22. “June is bustin’ out all over.” — Oscar Hammerstein II
  23. “Do not the bright June roses blow to meet thy kiss at morning hours?” — William C. Bryant
  24. “June is the perfect month to fall in love, with its warm days and starry nights.” – Unknown
  25. “I realized June had never been just a month.” – Sanober Khan
  26. “June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; in vain are dewdrops sprinkled o’er her, in vain would fain the friendly zephyrs fan her cheek; she stirs not.” — Charlotte Smith
  27. “And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever come perfect days.” – James Russell Lowell
  28. “It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace
  29. “June is a time for beach trips and barbecues, for laughter and fun.” — Unknown
  30. “It is better to be a young June bug than an old bird of paradise.” – Mark Twain

Happy June!

Memorial Day Quotes for Social Media

Memorial Day is a time to remember and honor the courageous individuals who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. It’s more than just cookouts and travel – it’s a time to reflect on the selflessness and bravery of those who did not return home. If you’re seeking a meaningful way to show respect for the fallen, why not incorporate a patriotic Memorial Day quote into your social media messages? Here are a few inspiring options to consider.

  1. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.” – John F. Kennedy
  2. “Whether we observe the occasion through public ceremony or through private prayer, Memorial Day leaves few hearts unmoved. Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.” – George H.W. Bush
  1. “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”- Barack Obama
  2. “It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God such men lived.”- George S. Patton
  3. “For love of country, they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”- James A. Garfield
  4. “America without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.”- Claudia Pemberton
  5. “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.” – Abraham Lincoln
  6. “On this Memorial Day, it is right for us to remember the living and the dead for whom the call of their country has meant pain and sacrifice. A grateful nation is in their debt.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
  1. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” – Nathan Hale
  2. “…And if words cannot repay the debt we owe these men, surely with our actions we must strive to keep faith with them and with the vision that led them to battle and to final sacrifice.” – Ronald Reagan
  3. “May we never forget our fallen comrades. Freedom isn’t free.” – Sgt. Major Bill Paxton
  4. “This is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home. This is not Veterans Day, it’s not a celebration, it is a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.” – Tamara Bolton
  5. “Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.” – Harry S. Truman
  6. “It’s better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing.” – Gen. George S. Patton
  7. “If you want to thank a soldier, be the kind of American worth fighting for.” – Unknown
  8. “Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.”- John Adams
  9. “Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.” – Jennifer M. Granholm
  10. “In Flanders fields the poppies blow; Between the crosses, row on row; That mark our place; and in the sky, the larks, still bravely singing, fly; Scarce heard amid the guns below.” –  John McCrae
  1. “Heroes never die. They live on in the hearts and minds of those who would follow in their footsteps.” – Emily Potter
  2. “Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.”- Wallace Bruce
  3. “And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.” – Lee Greenwood
  4. “The legacy of heroes — the memory of a great name, and the inheritance of a great example.” – Benjamin Disraeli
  5. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” – Winston Churchill
  6. “The brave die never, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men.” – Minot J. Savage
  7. “The willingness of America’s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.” – Jeff Miller
  8. “And they who for their country die shall fill an honored grave, for glory lights the soldier’s tomb, and beauty weeps the brave.” – Joseph Rodman Drake
  9. “Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  10. “Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it. It flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.” – Unknown
  11. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” – Joseph Campbell
  12. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
  13. “The patriot’s blood is the seed of freedom’s tree.” – Thomas Campbell
  14. “I believe our flag is more than just cloth and ink. It is a universally recognized symbol that stands for liberty, and freedom. It is the history of our nation, and it’s marked by the blood of those who died defending it.”– John Thune
  15. “I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.”– Bob Riley

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Stay safe!