Accept the children the way we accept treeswith gratitude, because they are a blessingbut do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are. - Isabel Allende We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South. - Roald Amundsen Once in a while I experience an emotion onstage that is so gut-wrenching, so heart-stopping, that I could weep with gratitude and joy. The feeling catches and magnifies so rapidly that it threatens to engulf me. - Julie Andrews Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the...

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments. - Silvia Hartmann Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action. - Cordell Hull

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver. - William Bartram Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history. - Gordon B Hinckley In our hearts do we feel a sense of gratitude and devotion to the Father? Are we of one heart with Him to whom we owe everything? The test of our devotion to the Lord seems to be the way we serve Him. - L Tom Perry We feel an enormous sense of gratitude towards the American people. - Jeanpierre Raffarin

Take full account of what Excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not. - Marcus Aurelius It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone. - Poppy Z Brite Gratitude is the creative force, the mother and father of love. It is in gratitude that real love exists. Love expands only when gratitude is there. Limited love does not offer gratitude. Limited love is immediately bound by something- by constant desires or constant demands. But when it is unlimited love, constant love, then gratitude comes to the fore. This love becomes all gratitude. - Sri Chinmoy He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself. - Albert Schweitzer I poked my st...

I enjoyed making them, and if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids. - Curtis Sittenfeld ...if it's great reverence you're looking for, or earnest expressions of gratitude - well, then you don't work with kids. - Curtis Sittenfeld

I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism. - John Doolittle All Americans and freedom-loving people around the world owe President Reagan our deepest gratitude for his strong, principled leadership that ended the Cold War and brought freedom to millions of people. - Jim Ramstad

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. - Allen Boyd The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. - Steve Buyer All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed this nation - and world - for the better. - Eliot Engel The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children. - Nancy Friday Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment. - Bobby...