Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Muir

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

John Muir

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.

John Wesley

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

John Templeton

When we desire to be a blessing, we find that there are many ways in which we can bless others. We can give material goods to others, and we can also offer them the benefit of our experience. People who have faced and overcome challenges with alcohol and drugs often involve themselves in helping others who are experiencing similar difficulties. They understand the value of overcoming the problem. In every area of the human experience, we may find those precious ones who are able and willing to be a blessing to others.

Sheena Easton

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.

Sheryl Crow

I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger.

Niki Taylor

I think God's really blessed me with patience. I'm good with a lot of things going on at once.

Nik Wallenda

I am so blessed. How blessed I am to have the life that I have.

Nicki Minaj

No I'm not lucky, I'm blessed YES

Nick Vujicic

... for every disability you have, you are blessed with more than enough abilities to overcome your challenges.

Nick Vujicic

You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.

Nonie Darwish

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

Nikos Kazantzakis

God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

Mignon McLaughlin

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

John Woolman

From the steady opposition which faithful Friends in early times made to wrong things then approved, they were hated and persecuted by men living in the spirit of this world, and suffering with firmness, they were made a blessing to the Church, and the work prospered.

John Wooden

Those of us who have been blessed with worldly success have an even greater responsibility to make an impact with our time, talents, and resources.

John Wooden

I've been blessed in so many ways.

John Quincy Adams

And may that Being who is supreme over all, the Patron of order, the Fountain of justice, and the Protector, in all ages of the world, of virtuous liberty, continue His blessing upon this nation and its government, and give it all possible success and duration, consistent with the ends of His providence.

Matt Holliday

I feel like I've been blessed with some athletic ability and I'd like to take advantage of it.

Meg Cabot

Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

Max Beckmann

As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

Marilynne Robinson

Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.

Mary Todd Lincoln

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Mary Todd Lincoln

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated. Our wrongs will be made right, and we will once more taste the blessings of freedom

Pat LaFontaine

It is an immense privilege to be able to play in the NHL. I was very blessed and a lot of things went my way to be able to make it.

Pablo Neruda

O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

Plautus

It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

Plautus

A man with courage has every blessing.

Plautus

No blessing lasts forever.

Plato

Our greatest blessings come to us by way of madness, provided the madness is given us by divine gift.

Plato

Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and on earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from the first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted.

Philip Wylie

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

Paula Abdul

I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.