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I Am Grateful For Quotes

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
- A R Ammons

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
- Oprah Winfrey

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual...O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
- Henry David Thoreau

I am grateful for the Christmases of my life
- Richard Paul Evans

I am grateful for emphasis on reading the scriptures. I hope that for you this will become something far more enjoyable than a duty; that, rather, it will become a love affair with the word of God. I promise you that as you read, your minds will be enlightened and your spirits will be lifted. At first it may seem tedious, but that will change into a wondrous experience with thoughts and words of things divine. Gordon B. Hinckley
- Gordon B Hinckley

My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis.
- Jim Lehrer

Librarians see themselves as the guardians of the First Amendment. You got a thousand Mother Joneses at the barricades! I love the librarians, and I am grateful for them!
- Michael Moore

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.
- Lester B Pearson

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
- Marilynne Robinson

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