Grateful Song Quotes

#1. Father, thank You for hearing my cry from the pit. I receive Your grace today and stand on the solid ground of Your righteousness. Every time I think of how You rescued me, my mouth can't help but sing Your praise. I love You and am so grateful for You. Let my whole life sing Your song. Amen!

Louie Giglio

#2. When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

Mary J. Blige

#3. Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.

William E. Simon

#4. To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good ...

Pope John Paul II

#5. A old man once told me "you live and you learn". We'll I've learnt that the blade sword is infinite, I've also learnt how to make a really good yogurt although this is not a skill I plan to employ at this point in time.

Terry Pratchett

#6. My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping to make a deal there. It's bilingual. And it's about trying to communicate across language and cultural barriers.

David Henry Hwang

#7. I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

Sharon Jones

#8. 'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

Tom Petty

#9. Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

Dolly Parton

#10. When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.

Donny Osmond

#11. The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the past, this ego, these emotions, but that you are the pure spirit.

Nirmala Srivastava

#12. I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

Kathy Valentine

#13. Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.

Peter F. Drucker

#14. There's still injustice happening in my world. I sing my songs at concerts and I'm so grateful that the people are ready to hear them.

Mavis Staples

#15. While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

Steve Winwood

#16. We just do what we do, we're grateful every night when there's people in front of the stage and singing our songs back at us. We're all fortunate to be able to be doing this for a living, so we're just grateful to be here and we just do what we do and we let the people decide.

Al Barr

#17. It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

David Foster Wallace

#18. Changing any habit requires determination.

Charles Duhigg

#19. That's the thing about saying "sorry" or "excuse me" in this city. No one ever does. Or when we do apologize, we don't actually say it clearly. We just whisper the outline of excuse me or form the word sorry with our mouth, as if we expect people to lip-read.

Susane Colasanti

#20. I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

Jennifer Nettles

#21. An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.

Avey Tare

#22. In that moment I was deeply grateful to the Gypsies, and for the simplemindedness of the animal part of my brain; that a hot meal and a song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while. Then

Ransom Riggs

#23. We're all about trying to play better every night, not just singing hit songs ... we ad lib, and every night there's jamming .. it's almost like the Grateful Dead meets Buck Owens some nights, because we'll go off on little adventures and sometimes we do crash the bus! ...

Brad Paisley

#24. Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, 'You're enough.

Julia Cameron

#25. The day watch stayed on deck, running the rigging and undertaking the never-ending chores of ship life. A few favoured me with a customary glare or two, but none attempted to converse, a mercy for which I was grateful.

Anthony Ryan

#26. I winced. Thanks to Colin and Becky, my birthday song sounded a lot like a hyena getting fed through a wood chipper. I was grateful when it finally ended.

Steven Whibley