Gratefully Quotes

#1. As a dinner guest I gratefully eat just about anything that's set before me, because graciousness among friends is dearer to me than any other agenda.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. Thank you, Father," Sir Lancelot replied gratefully. "But ... er ... Father?" "Yes, Lancelot?" "You didn't say anything about my armor. Is it not shiny enough?

Gerald Morris

#3. It was no great gift, for there was mighty little wine left; but Signor Cavalletto, jumping to his feet, received the bottle gratefully, turned it upside down at his mouth, and smacked his lips.

Charles Dickens

#4. I'm not interested in awards. I never have been. I don't think they are important. Don't get me wrong, if somebody gives me a prize, I thank them as gratefully as I know how, because it's very nice to be given a prize. But I don't think that awards ought to be sought.

John Hurt

#5. Live positively.
Live gratefully.
Live blissfully.
Live lovingly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Once arrived in the City, he dispersed utterly and gratefully in it like a raindrop fallen into the sea.

John Crowley

#7. Ivan took his tea gratefully but Philippe watched dispassionately as he took a long sip from it, as though he did not think that now was the moment for drinking tea.

William Axtell

#8. Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

Terry Eagleton

#9. There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

Rudolf Bing

#10. We have gratefully to receive from the hand of God the institution of the state with its magistrates as a means of preservation ... On the other hand ... by virtue of our natural impulse, we must ever watch against the danger which lurks for our personal liberty in the power of the state.

Abraham Kuyper

#11. We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

Peter Forsyth

#12. I write to be a part of something - a world made up of words and ideas, which are sometimes painfully criticized, gratefully loved and can never be destroyed.

Ashley Sanders

#13. I have faith," Tanith said. "As do I," said Ghastly. Valkyrie smiled at them gratefully. "So you think the plan will work?" "God, no," said Ghastly. "Sorry, Val," said Tanith.

Derek Landy

#14. Immediately allayed his fears, he gratefully recalled, by the raillery

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#15. Summer rushes in on the heels of spring, eager to take her turn; and then she dances with wild abandon. But the time soon comes when she gratefully falls, exhausted and sated, into the auburn arms of autumn.

Cristen Rodgers

#16. The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

Eamon De Valera

#17. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay.

Katja Millay

#18. Collaborate, don't dictate. Every department head has something to offer. Listen and gratefully accept their offerings. They're moviemakers, too.

George A. Romero

#19. When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

Maya Angelou

#20. Lavish love on others receive it gratefully when it come to you. Cultivate friendship like a garden. It is the best love of all.

Helen Prejean

#21. Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

Neale Donald Walsch

#22. What happiness the rural maid attends, In cheerful labour while each day she spends! She gratefully receives what Heav'n has sent, And, rich in poverty, enjoys content.

John Gay

#23. I was attacked by two dogs when I was three and a half years old. I'm lucky to be alive. My face was stitched back together and here I still am, gratefully so. I believe that experience shocked me into a deep alliance with the animal world, its beauty and viciousness and terror.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#24. He hung up the phone, and I did so gratefully, rubbing my ear a bit for good measure. I was pretty sure I'd just heard Rick Astley at eardrum-popping decibels, which wasn't anything I needed to ever experience again. Ever.

Chloe Neill

#25. To desperately hope," I whispered
James let out a breath. "To gratefully believe.

Laura Whitcomb

#26. The old woman took the umbrella, gratefully, and smiled her thanks. "You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go." Then she shook her head. "But mostly, it's not.

Neil Gaiman

#27. And wanting nothing, regretting nothing, Peters smiled gratefully at life - running past, indifferent, ungrateful, treacherous, mocking, meaningless, alien - marvelous, marvelous, marvelous.

Tatyana Tolstaya

#28. Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

John Muir

#29. As we seek God, it's best not to focus on asking about the future. It's not about picking and choosing which pieces of information we think God should give us. Rather, we listen for what He wants to tell us, and then gratefully accept whatever that happens to be.

Susan Rohrer

#30. TO
MY COLLABORATOR
who buys the ink and paper
laughs
and, in fact, does all the really difficult
part of the business
this book is gratefully dedicated
in memory of a winter's morning
in Switzerland

A.A. Milne

#31. Mary reached into her vinyl purse and extracted one of the novels, each of whose covers had promised laughter and tears. She began to read and, finding a masterful storyteller behind its pages, was instantly and gratefully transported to another place.

Lori Lansens

#32. Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Isaac Watts

#33. Gracefully and gratefully accept the changes in our lives as casually and flexibly like a butterfly does." ~ Angelica Hopes, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul

Angelica Hopes

#34. Give me a break, I'm trying to Gratefully Condescend.

Chloe Neill

#35. The more evolved you are the less you will agree or disagree with others, and the more you will gently sift through the fullness of what people are offering and gratefully take only what you need.

Bryant McGill

#36. No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Lucy Larcom

#37. Wherever that man went, he went gratefully.

Seamus Heaney

#38. The more gratefully we fix our minds on the Supreme when good things come to us, the more good things we will receive, and the more rapidly they will come; and the reason simply is that the mental attitude of gratitude draws the mind into closer touch with the source from which the blessings come.

Wallace D. Wattles

#39. A very poor man lives upon crumbs, and smiles gratefully - through tears. 6

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#40. The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

Martin Luther

#41. You develop patience that enables you to wait gracefully and gratefully until the best arrives because you know it will.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#42. Eamonn Carr was coming in with tea on a tray, and what looked like home-made biscuits. Paula took her drink gratefully, but saw that Guy just sipped his and put it down on a well-placed coaster.

Claire McGowan

#43. It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it - gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

Ann Packer

#44. One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received.

Beatriz Williams

#45. most. If I could be alone, I would. Gratefully. I'd rather be alone than have to pretend I'm okay. But they won't give me that option. So I'll settle for being with someone who at least doesn't love me as much. I'm thankful for Margot. Not that I tell her this. Not that I tell her anything. I don't.

Katja Millay

#46. If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present ... gratefully.

Maya Angelou

#47. The day passed, a poor, sluggish thing that departed almost gratefully as night took its place.

John Connolly

#48. Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

Abraham Lincoln

#49. Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

Edith Head

#50. Tell me," said Ashe gratefully, leaning forward in an attitude of attention, "all about the lining of your stomach.

P.G. Wodehouse

#51. Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

Deepak Chopra

#52. O children of God, seek after a vital experience of the Lord's lovingkindness, and when you have it, speak positively of it; sing gratefully; shout triumphantly.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#53. Great thinkers are the grateful thankers - the real greats live gratefully.

Ann Voskamp

#54. Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

James Joyce

#55. Let us then remember the dead-and all wars-gratefully. And let us hope that because of them we may become a touch better, a thimbleful wiser, and a handshake more tolerant of this changing world they did not live to see.

Arthur Hailey

#56. I'll do whatever you want," Trash said gratefully in the dream. "My life for you! My soul for you!"
"I will set you to burn," the dark man said gravely.

Stephen King

#57. By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

Robert Harris

#58. You're taking this very well, Gallowglass," Diana said gratefully. "Matthew would be trying to talk me out of it." "That's what you get for falling in love with the wrong man," he said under his breath, slipping the phone back into his pocket.

Deborah Harkness

#59. What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart.

Herman Melville

#60. Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.

Cecilia Dart-Thornton

#61. Behind her leg a shy little girl - Grace - smiling up. "Dad?" It was a kind hope. But his dreams spoke to none of that: when he slept he dreamt of darkness, or of people he did not recognize, or of water closing slowly, almost gratefully, over his head.

Anthony Doerr

#62. How often do we truly feel accepted?
Are we aware of the collateral effects inflicted when we reject someone or something?
How do we move on from a state of constant rejection?
How do we gratefully accept rejection?
With acceptance, we grow not in a constant state of rejection.

Angelica Hopes

#63. Live gratefully. Express it constantly. Expect abundance.

Pooja Ruprell

#64. Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

Napoleon Hill

#65. Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

Charlotte Bronte

#66. Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?

Em Claire

#67. If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God's truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.

Stormie O'martian

#68. I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.

Taylor Caldwell

#69. Beneficial indeed," Kruppe said, gratefully accepting the earthenware mug. "Kruppe has learned the value of modern language. Such long-lipped dribbles common to those ancient scholars are a curse Kruppe is thankful to find extinct in our time.

Steven Erikson

#70. and it was there, standing on the edge of a village playing field, that I gratefully stepped into novicehood again, as if I had never seen a hawk in my life.

Helen Macdonald

#71. You get to a certain point - gratefully - when you're out of your twenties, and you realize how fleeting life is. So, it becomes important to feel as if the people in your life know exactly how you feel about them at all times.

Johnny Galecki

#72. ...she basked gratefully in the warmth of her husband's love

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#73. I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated ... I was deeply impressed.

Saul Bellow

#74. Accept loyalty gratefully, and accept betrayal with a smile, knowing that it teaches you life lessons.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe