Famous Quotes & Sayings

Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? / The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

Most blessed is that Guru, who imparts understanding of the Lord.

William Shakespeare

Look down you gods, and on this couple drop a blessed crown.- from The Tempest

I think school is the most important thing in anybody's life. My life has been richly blessed by being able to go to college.

Mara Brock Akil

I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.

Mike Hargrove

I think every day he walks out and you look at his face you realize you expect too much out of him because he's only 19 years old. He's going to be cursed and blessed his entire career. There are going to be big expectations for him. He's blessed in the fact that he probably can meet those expectations more times than not. It's kind of a double-edged sword.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Kyle Whittingham

We're blessed with a good quarterback situation that Utah's never had. We're not ready to determine the pecking order yet.

We're blessed to have someone like her. She's an incredible role model. She's a player at the highest level, and she brings a perspective to coaching that is different from what I can bring. She's able to show our players things that she's doing daily to prepare for the national team.

We're blessed to have each other and God. I tell new couples to think about tomorrow and not get so upset about today.

We're blessed in that sense. They have power back now, and they can live there. But still, the kids have no school to go to.

Jimmy Walker

We're blessed and proud . . . and if he has a great game, that's icing on the cake.

We?re blessed and cursed in the same aspect. We have 20 quality players all the way around and it?s hard to get all of them in games a lot of times. We have our starters, but we feel comfortable when we make switches.

Al Groh

We encourage him to do that. God has blessed him with a talent that all those 6-5 quarterbacks wished they had.

We don't have a huge number of Fortune 500 companies in this town. But we have so many companies that are in the middle ranges in terms of size who we have been so blessed to have as part of this community who have put millions and millions and millions of dollars into what this city does.

Ving Rhames

I think God has blessed all of us with at least one gift, so I think it's just a matter of do we find it within our lifetime?

Glen Campbell

I think I've been blessed with the upbringing of parents who told you ... There's an old saying, 'If he tells you a hog weighs five pounds, wrap it up.' That pretty much says it.

You just know when there's a shot at goal there's a good chance he'll put it over no matter how difficult the angle. We're blessed to have him.

We'll definitely be ready by then. It's been a full-court press to get ready. We've been blessed by some very good weather and everybody, from the very beginning, has been singularly focused on completing the project by opening day.

When it comes to gifts of God, ... we are so blessed that there are really 365 Christmas days when one wants to reflect on it. I think it will help to bring this message home.

We are blessed with a lot of kids that can play. We have eight or nine that are starters.

We are blessed to have Sally Hild back on staff. She not only brings an unbeatable skill set and sunny personality, but she has institutional knowledge.

H. G. Wells

This blessed gift of smoking!

H. G. Wells

We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.

Candice Bergen

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Candice Swanepoel

I grew up in a farm in South Africa and I was scouted there and they sent me to Europe. It's kind of been blessed, since then it happened all so fast.

Buzz Aldrin

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

James Hillman

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

Euripides

For no mortal ever attains to blessedness. One may be luckier than another when wealth flows his way, but blessed never.

Ernest Renan

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.

Fulton J. Sheen

All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him.

Fulton J. Sheen

When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.

Francois Rabelais

Few and signally blessed are those whom Jupiter has destined to be cabbage-planters. For they've always one foot on the ground andthe other not far from it. Anyone is welcome to argue about felicity and supreme happiness. But the man who plants cabbages I now positively declare to be the happiest of mortals.