Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

I want more numbers than I’m likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.

John Flavel

Lord, here is my body; I am very grateful for it; I neglected nothing that belonged to its contents and welfare; but as for my soul, that is lost and cast away forever. I took little care and thought about it.

Lionel Blue

I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.

Lionel Messi

Ronaldinho was responsible for the change in Barça. It was a bad time and the change that came about with his arrival was amazing. In the first year, he didn't win anything but people fell in love with him. Then the trophies started coming and he made all those people happy. Barça should always be grateful for everything he did.

Linda Evangelista

Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.

Lil Wayne

I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me.

Lester Bangs

John Lennon at his best despised cheap sentiment and had to learn the hard way that once you've made your mark on history those who can't will be so grateful they'll turn it into a cage for you.

John Malkovich

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

John Locke

Knowledge is grateful to the understanding, as light to the eyes.

Jim Lehrer

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.

George Lucas

I'm extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.

Elizabeth Gilbert

When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one dazzling moment of life here on Earth, and we must stand before that reality both humbled and elevated, subject to every law of our universe and grateful for our brief but intrinsic participation with it.

Julie Andrews

Don't you get a swollen head. There's always someone who could come and do what you do, maybe even better, so be grateful and work hard.

Joseph Murphy

I like money, I love it, I use it wisely, constructively, and judiciously. Money is constantly circulating in my life. I release it with joy, and it returns to me multiplied in a wonderful way. It is good and very good. Money flows to me in avalanches of abundance. I use it for good only, and I am grateful for my good and for the riches of my mind.

Katherine Heigl

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

Katherine Heigl

Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.

Karen Joy Fowler

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up.

John Keats

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed.

Gayle Forman

About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.

Liu Yang

I am grateful to the motherland and the people. I feel honored to fly into space on behalf of hundreds of millions of female Chinese citizens,

Lucian

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

Louise Jameson

I found that a bit unfair. However, I did feel quite liberated when I left. I'm very grateful to the show - it revived a flagging career, but I'm glad to be away from it now.

Louise Jameson

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

Loretta Devine

I am so grateful and honored to be nominated. Working on Grey's Anatomy for the past few seasons has been a blessing and I have loved developing the character, Adele. I am so thankful to have had the opportunity to work with Shonda Rhimes and I want to thank her for keeping my character alive for all of these seasons.

Lord Byron

May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems--when they pay for coats.

Malachy McCourt

I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

Joy Williams

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

Julian Simon

People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

Juliana Hatfield

It may seem strange, but the most grateful I've ever felt was when I was held up at gunpoint. After I handed over my wallet and the mugger ran off into the woods, I thought, 'Thank you for not shooting me.' I was overwhelmingly glad to be alive and unharmed.

Kathryn Hahn

I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

Kathy Acker

Yeah, I mean, I put work out there for people to use and I'm grateful when you use it.

Paul Theroux

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

Maggie Smith

I'm just glad to get any role... the fact that they're all 90 is neither here nor there! Actually, it was Hook that started it. I think it was Peggy Ashcroft who couldn't do the part and somebody was asked how old was I and would I be able to do the part, and the person replied "92" very quickly. And so I've been stuck ever since! But I'm actually very grateful.