Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dianne Wiest

I've been grateful for what comes along.

Bernie Siegel

Most of us never stop to consider our blessings; rather, we spend the day only thinking about our problems. But since you have to be alive to have problems, be grateful for the opportunity to have them.

They're grateful for what they received in their time of need.

Dr. Seuss

Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance To escape from the perilous pants eating plants But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy You ought to be shouting how lucky am I

Donald Miller

We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.

Dalai Lama

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

Ken Whisenhunt

I had a great visit with Mr. Davis, and I'm grateful for the opportunity. I just realized that I wanted to stay in Pittsburgh.

W. S. Gilbert

I don't know how something like this happens. Greg is a remarkable man with a lot of class. I'm just grateful that he didn't sell his house in New York.

J. J. Abrams

I feel like I learn every day how I can be a better producer or writer or storyteller. The thing that keeps me the most balanced is just going home every day and getting my ass kicked by my kids, and having a wife who is the most wonderfully/brutally honest person I've ever met. I think that that is always the first lens through which I see the world. For everything else, I'm just grateful for the people I work with.

J. J. Abrams

George Lucas is the reason that we got to make this movie, you know, he was the man that created this whole galaxy, and I am incredibly grateful to him. He's an artist and he's a grown-up. And I take him at his word, and it doesn't mean I agree with everything he says, but I respect, you know, his right to his opinion.

J. J. Abrams

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

J. D. Salinger

I feel overwhelmingly grateful to them, but I don't know what to do with their invisible gifts.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

Jack McDevitt

Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

Hannah More

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. There are three requisitions to the proper enjoyment of earthly blessings,--a thankful reflection on the goodness of the Giver, a deep sense of our unworthiness, a recollection of the uncertainty of long possessing them. The first would make us grateful; the second, humble; and the third, moderate.

Grace Slick

Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead did as much for mankind as any president.

Ginger Rogers

Like most actors, I've always been grateful for Chinese restaurants; they were often the only places that stayed open late enough for performers to get hot food after the show.

Harry Cohn

I have never met a grateful performer in the movies.

Sheila Lee

Houston was spared the worst and we are grateful for that, but we will have long-term repercussions,

Sandis Ozolinsh

I'm very grateful to get back here and get a lot of support from my teammates and everybody. It was very important. I'm trying to keep very positive about everything.

Chita Rivera

I'm very grateful that so many people are not sick any longer... I'm so grateful not to be going to so many funerals, and losing my friends.

Stephen Collins

In a million years, I never thought I would play some sort of iconic image of fatherhood. I'm tremendously grateful for it.

But I am very grateful and thankful for how successful we've been. I am proud of some of the young players ? we have so many new, young players on this team.

We're very grateful that the Lord has let us have all these years together.

Orson Scott Card

I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

William Wordsworth

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Larry Csonka

I signed it and told him I was pretty grateful he picked my butt out of the Bering Sea.

The support for the program has just been extraordinary. I'm just so grateful for it.

I'm grateful he's here, and I hate to see him go back.

John Gibbons

I'm grateful for it. Now it's my job to make it work.

John Madden

I'm not going to make a lot of sense and I don't care. It comes from my heart. I am humbled and grateful and thankful. I just got to sit down. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Krysten Ritter

We were very grateful that the response [for Jessica Jones series] has been so positive. If we get a great review, then more people watch it. It's so exciting!