“Thank God it has rained all day.”

“Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.”

“I am thankful, of course, for the prize and thankful to God for each story, each idea, each word, each day.”

“and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.”

“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.

Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.”

“Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.”

“I've never lived a day, in good times or bad, that I didn't thank God for the privilege.”

“Thank God for gay men. Thank God for gay men, because if it were not for gay men, I would not talk to men at all.”

“Thank God justice has prevailed I have been vindicated.”

“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”