“Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage.”
Grateful feeling
Grateful Quotes — page 238 of 709
“Gratitude is the proper response for the absolute astonishment of getting to be alive, and aware, and an essential part of this crazy, sprawling story.”
“I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores.”
“I have a great family, I live an amazing life.”
“I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.”
“Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.”
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for four thousand years and has never succumbed. It requires tough and devoted people to keep it alive.”
“It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object.”
“Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields.”
“My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.”
“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”
“Virtue is the health of the soul.”
“I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.”
“God has blessed me in many ways. Money is not the greatest blessing you can have, but I literally had absolutely nothing. The first message that I preached at Life in the Word, I had to borrow a suit from my pastor's wife, because I didn't have any decent clothes, and I was driving a 20-year-old car. We went through a lot of years of having nothing, sleeping in McDonald's parking lots, because we didn't have money to stay all night in a hotel. But, like anybody else who works hard and is diligent and doesn't quit and doesn't give up, there is a day the blessings come.”
“If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.”
“When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.”
“Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.”
“I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.”
“To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.”
“I like to walk, touch living Mother Earth—bare feet best, and thrill every step. Used to envy happy reptiles that had advantage of so much body in contact with earth, bosom to bosom. [We] live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way.”