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Appreciation Quotes


"Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes."


"Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet."


"To have great poets, there must be great audiences."


"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."


"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"


"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."


"And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you."


"To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect."


"Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer."


"There is really a whole new appreciation when you leave and then come back."


"We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation."


"If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful."


"I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career."


"With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome."


"The most precious gift you can ever give to a young woman is, appreciating and understanding her true feelings."


"But you knoe, she's right. Every single day, each time I see her face, see her, it's utterly precious."


"Appreciate and find ways to invest in yourself."


"I have enjoyed the years enormously in Cleveland and especially in Baltimore."


"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."


"The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet."


"It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me."


"To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle."


"Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live."


"At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my back, white clouds. I stare and stare. It seems I was called for this: To glorify things just because they are."


"Bing was always hesitant to accept appreciation in any form."


"It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place."


"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"


"Happiness doesn't always come in pink. Learn to appreciate the rainbow."


"I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models."


"No one is so completely disenchanted with the world, or knows it so thoroughly, or is so utterly disgusted with it, that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it."


"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are."


"The details that are life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look."


"I felt like I'd been misplaced in the cosmos and I belonged in Maine."


"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."


"Evil report carries further than any applause."


"I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents."



"Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance."


"Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans."


"J. Lo is also an homage to my fans. That's what fans call me on the streets, and I like it. So giving the album this title is my way of telling them that this is for them, in appreciation of their support."


"What you have said, Mr. President, fully satisfies me that you have given to every proposition which has been made, a kind and candid consideration. And you have now expressed the conclusion to which you have arrived, clearly and distinctly."


"What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!"


"So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me."


"The first step to receiving more blessings is appreciating the ones you have."


"You have given me a gift such as I never even dreamt of finding in this life."


"A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold."


"Go outside, wherever you are, and appreciate each drop of water, each flower, each architectural work of art."


"The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence."


"I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one."


"A great artist is a great man in a great child."
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