Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.

Nhat Hanh

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Nhat Hanh

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Nhat Hanh

Breathing in, I am aware that I am breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware that I am breathing out. Breathing in, I am grateful for this moment. Breathing out, I smile. Breathing in, I am aware of the preciousness of this day. Breathing out, I vow to live deeply in this day.

Mike Oldfield

I'm just so grateful and astonished that I'm still respected and listened to.

John Ashbery

One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.

Joe Swanberg

I always loved the work. As soon as I finished a movie, the most exciting thing to do was to try to jump into the next one. How I feel about it is that I learned a lot, so I'm grateful that I learned so much, at such a young age, rather than in my more adult professional career.

John Green

‎These little contradictions are in all of us. They're in me at least. And so I forgot that I had been awake for 30 hours and kept walking, grateful to be a little boat full of water, still floating.

Mindy Cohn

You're grateful and appreciative that people liked you and remember you.

Mike Rowe

I'm looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.

Krysten Ritter

We were very grateful that the response [for Jessica Jones series] has been so positive. If we get a great review, then more people watch it. It's so exciting!

Judd Nelson

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.

P. L. Travers

For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Masaharu Morimoto

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

Patty Murray

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

Patty Murray

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation.

Kristin Kreuk

I have had a very charmed life. I look at what's happened in my life, and I feel so lucky. I don't know how it occurred. I didn't plan it, but I got to be with my family when I needed to be with my family. I got to go and travel the world, doing these amazing projects, and I feel like I'm so privileged and grateful.

Natalia Vodianova

My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it.

I think that Americans are very grateful to the Bush family for their public service.

Julia Stiles

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety.

Julia Stiles

So I am happy to have fans, especially if it enables me to keep working. And I am really grateful when people respond to my work.

Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Ken Kesey

The Grateful Dead are faster than light drive.

Katrina Bowden

Focus on the positives and be grateful.

Katie Couric

I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.

I have always been a spectator of life, you know, never a participant. Never. But now I am. Today I am, and I an awed and deliriously happy. This is the adventure I asked for, the adventure I am having I will be forever grateful to you.

Niecy Nash

I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm just grateful to know that the first time I fell in love wasn't the last time.

Nicole Richie

Be kind to everybody, be grateful, say thank you everyday. My parents taught me well.

Matt Czuchry

I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.

Mark Twain

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

Nicholas Sparks

If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.

Neal A. Maxwell

Comparatively, we are so much quicker to return favors and to pay our debts to mortals - and we should be responsive and grateful. But what of Him who gave us mortal life itself, who will ere long give us all immortality, and who proffers to the faithful the greatest gift of all, eternal life? We are poor bookkeepers, indeed!

Muhammad Ali

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.