Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Anastasio

Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history,

Tracy Kidder

I am grateful to Stacy Schiff first of all because she can write a sentence-because she offers us her scholarship with wit, clarity, and grace. Once again, she has done what only the best writers can do: she has made the world new, again.

Valerie Harper

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

Valerie June

I'm grateful that music has been a place where I've found freedom.

Sarah Wayne Callies

I watched Ricki Lake's documentary, 'The Business of Being Born,' and that led me to call a midwife, and not an ob-gyn, when I found out I had conceived. My delivery was not easy - they call it 'labor,' not 'a vacation!' - but I was incredibly grateful that I did it that way.

Sarah Waters

I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.

Sara Gruen

I'm truly grateful for my microwave, which allows me to easily clarify butter, steam vegetables, and - when I am really lazy - feed my three kids in less than five minutes.

Vivien Leigh

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

Wayne Dyer

The more we give away, the more is given to us.

Wentworth Miller

I've never seen American Idol but I am grateful to them. That show is one of Fox's biggest moneymakers, and some of that money goes to pay for shows like Prison Break. Simon Cowell's been signing my paychecks and for that I say thanks.

Wentworth Miller

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

Werner Herzog

We ought to be grateful that the Universe out there knows no smile.

Walton Goggins

I really enjoy what I do, and I'm very grateful to be given an opportunity to do it. That's one thing that people can say about me.

W. H. Auden

To my generation no other English poet seemed so perfectly to express the sensibility of a male adolescent. If I do not now turn to him very often, I am eternally grateful to him for the joy he gave me in my youth.

W. H. Auden

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

Robert Fitzgerald

I think that everyone who took part has always been grateful for it.

Wesley Clark

President George Bush had the courage and the vision and we will always be grateful to President George Bush for that tremendous leadership and statesmanship.

Virginia Satir

You have all played a significant part in my development of loving. As a result, my life has been rich and full, so I leave feeling very grateful.

Saul Bellow

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Saul Bellow

Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for.

Sarah Dessen

I'd seen another shade of him, and if it had been light where we were now, he'd have seen the same of me. So I was grateful, as I had been so often in my life, for the dark.

Sandra Bullock

At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

Rod Taylor

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

Robin Quivers

I, quite frankly, am grateful for every day. I don't take anything for granted.

Robin Roberts

I want people to know there are infinite possibilities in life to be grateful for. I love that people feel comfortable coming up to me and telling me stories about things they have gone through.

Warren Haynes

My personal time is limited, more so than I wish. However, my wife and I have talked about the fact that there are opportunities right now that won't be there forever. For example, when the Grateful Dead offered me to tour in 2004, my first reaction was to say no, I just can't do it. Then my wife said, "Well, let's rethink this. You don't want to look back down the road and say, I could've done that, but I said no." So, we made it work.

Ronald Reagan

Elvis epitomised America, and for that we shall be eternally grateful. There will never be anyone else like him. Let's all rejoice in his music.

Yanni

The live concerts are everything and I’m very grateful that most of my career, I’m a live artist, I’ve been doing this. So I’ve traveled quite a lot, played in - I never stopped playing.

Wilma Mankiller

One of the things my parents taught me, and I'll always be grateful as a gift, is to not ever let anybody else define me; that for me to define myself . . . and I think that helped me a lot in assuming a leadership position.

W. C. Fields

Variant: I was driven to drink by a woman. I am forever grateful, yet I never had the good manners to thank her.

Zach Wamp

Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.

Zachary Levi

I love hosting. I've always really enjoyed making people happy, and so anytime I'm doing anything or the event is doing anything, and I look around and there are smiles on everybody's faces, I feel like I've succeeded in doing something. That's the stuff that I'm most grateful for.

Zach Braff

Most people just aren't grateful for the lives they have, and it really saddens me. For instance, I said 'hello' to a man the other day, and he didn't even recognize me. It just really saddens me.