Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Creeley

God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.

Richard Baxter

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

William Wordsworth

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend... when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present - love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure - the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.

Richard Gere

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

Rebecca Wells

I swear I could write a book about all the things no one has ever thanked me for.

Roald Amundsen

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Richard Rohr

Mature prayer always breaks into gratitude.

Karl Shapiro

Haul up the flag, you mourners, Not half-mast but all the way; The funeral is done and disbanded; The devil's had the final say.

Pauline Kael

I felt as if I had attended the funeral of someone I didn't know.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It’s so much more romantic to end a story up with a funeral than a wedding.

Julie Burchill

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

Judith McNaught

At my age, I regard each funeral I attend as a personal triumph, because I was not the guest of honor.

Josh Groban

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good pick.

Jim Morrison

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

Joan Rivers

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.

William Shakespeare

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Saint Augustine

Eternity is the now that does not pass away.

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Matthew Simpson

If you live for pleasure, your ability to enjoy it may pass away and your senses grow dim.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.