Regina Brett Quotes

If no one shopped on Thanksgiving Day, the stores wouldn't open. End of story. I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

On Thanksgiving we do just everything except give thanks. We eat, we watch football, we have a good time with family. Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I don't have to do anything except bring wine and go to my sister's all day and go to the movies with the family. So, actually, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, but there's not much comedy material on Thanksgiving. Melatonin really isn't that funny.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

I'm lucky I've been able to spend a lot of time with my family.

I would like to thank my parents in Vergaio, a little village in Italy. They gave me the biggest gift: poverty.

I enjoy what I'm able to give my family.

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

When I look around, I begin to understand what Socrates meant when he said, 'How much there is in the world I do not want.'

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

I'm not going to tell you to meditate on what Christmas really means and be thankful.

I really don't require a whole lot in life.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

My day rotates around my family. I am very lucky.

I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.