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Grateful Quotes — page 244 of 709
“"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.”
“Bless the Lord, o my soul, and forget none of His benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion.”
“Praise never gives us much pleasure unless it concur with our own opinion, and extol us for those qualities in which we chiefly excel.”
“We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.”
“The greatest achievements are those that benefit others.”
“Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.”
“You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.”
“I was blessed to have family members who encouraged me to pursue my dreams. Whether it is your parents, or your uncles or your aunts or even the neighbor down the road, it's important that kids have someone who encourages them to chase their rainbow.”
“I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation.”
“Readers enjoy talking about books almost as much as they like reading.”
“And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint lyin in my verses, I'm just tellin you the basics of growin up wit ya friends and becomin the one that made it”
“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
“Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.”
“I love the old movies from my past, when I was growing up. I just have a special place in my heart for them. They kind of feel like comfort food to me, so watching them is just cozy and warm.”
“When I do get time, I like to hike and I take lots of vitamins and powders to keep healthy.”
“Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that my own hands, all of my life, I put in the plant beds and transferred it! I hoed it! I've dug in it! I've sprayed it! I've chopped it! I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it!”
“It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.”
“Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.”
“Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”