“By a lot of peoples standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And I was doted on.”
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Grateful Quotes — page 50 of 709
“We should not take the blessings of God for granted. We should always be careful to give God praise and thanksgiving for the work that he does in our lives.”
“The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.”
“I get asked about the best games I've called, and as far as college football goes, the Florida-LSU environment was as good as I've ever been around. I had always heard about night games at Tiger Stadium and had never gotten the chance to call one. It was really special to be a part of that and then the game, my gosh, how can anybody ever forget that. The fourth quarter and LSU's final drive, that's something I'll always remember.”
“The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.”
“I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.”
“What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.”
“There are enough doctors on the planet so that nobody has to die for lack of attendance.”
“Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change, you love them as they are.”
“Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.”
“It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.”
“I want to have a little toy version of Morgana. I can then show it to my grandchildren one day. So I can say I used to have a waist.”
“I thank the earth and the sky everyday for the opportunities I’ve had.”
“As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.”
“In the songs all knights are gallant, all maids are beautiful, and the sun is always shining.”
“The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.”
“The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.”
“We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.”