I knew I could call her if there was an emergency but 'thankfully' [='fortunately'] it wasn't necessary.
I'm very 'thankful' [='grateful'] 'for' all the help they've given me.
I'm 'thankful' (that) we were not on the boat when the storm hit.
(..) For cents there never was happiness. The man ate dirt till he was years old. That's all there was, was dirt. And he was thankful to eat that dirt. That's the part l couldn't understand. No matter how much he suffered, he'd always say, ''And l was thankful to get it!'' My father walked to school, every morning, with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in five feet of snow, and he was thankful. l asked my father to give me a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook. Now he's giving money away. (..)1983 Bill Cosby: Himself