Famous Quotes & Sayings

Justin Smith

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing.

George MacDonald

Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!

Emanuel Cleaver

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

Emanuel Swedenborg

All in heaven take joy in sharing their delights and blessings with others.

Elvis Presley

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

Ellen Hopkins

Some people never find love at all, count yourself blessed if it ever happens your way

Elizabeth George

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings.

Joel Osteen

The sad truth is, if you push hard enough, and if you’re so stubborn that you must have things your way, God will sometimes allow you to undertake a project without His blessing or at the wrong time. The problem with that, of course, is when you start something in your own strength and in your own timing, you’re going to have to finish it and maintain it in your own strength.

Joel Osteen

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

Joel Osteen

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

Joel Osteen

If you can be a blessing to somebody else, you're sowing a seed for God to help you.

Joel Osteen

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.

Joel Osteen

If you want to rear financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

Joel Osteen

If it’s not meeting a need, turn it into a seed. Remember, we will reap what we sow. When you do good for other people, that’s when God is going to make sure that His abundant blessings overtake you.

Joel Osteen

When you are committed to doing what’s right, you are sowing seeds for God’s blessings. You will never go wrong by taking the high road and doing more that is required.

Joel Osteen

There are people in your path just so you can be a blessing to them. Anytime you do good for others, you are sowing a seed for God to be good to you.

Joe Biden

The spirit of Thanksgiving rests in our recognizing the blessings in our lives, and as we all take stock, I hope you will join me in expressing sincerest thanks to our soldiers serving in harm's way in Iraq, Afghanistan, and around the world. May God bless you on this day of thanks, and may God protect our troops.

Jim Thome

If I had to give advice about parents, it would be this: Value your relationships with them. Those relationships are what you stand for. Not only are we blessed to wear a uniform that says PHILLIES on the front, but we have our names on the back. That name means you're playing for your family.

Madeleine L'Engle

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.

John F. Kennedy

If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing

John F. Kennedy

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Jonathan Edwards

When God is about to bestow some great blessing on His church, it is often His manner, in the first place, so to order things in His providence as to show His church their great need of it, and to bring them into distress for want of it, and so put them upon crying earnestly to Him for it.

Joyce Carol Oates

God's blessing is not always to be distinguished from His wrath.

Kate Walsh

I sort of watched everyone go through it on that show ["Grey's Anatomy" ] because I came on later in the first season, so I kind of watched everyone else go through it but really I am so grateful and blessed and feel I have had such a great career and I love that fans love the shows that I do, and so when I get approached I still, I go, "Oh, thank you. That makes me feel good."

Katey Sagal

It's sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you're not able to continue on.

Kate Adie

Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.

Joseph Lancaster

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

James Madison

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

James Madison

But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused.

James M. Barrie

Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.

Joan Didion

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.