Top 100 The Greatest Thing Quotes
#3. My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
Maria Karnilova
#4. Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.
Bo Sanchez
#5. It was the greatest thing in the world getting fat. Every meal out was an event. Or we'd go to Italy and we'd have pasta, truffles, and dessert and then plan the next incredible meal. It was a happy-go-lucky time. I never had so much fun.
Kirstie Alley
#6. Perhaps the greatest thing one can discover is that you can decide who you are. You don't have to be whom the Ludlucks made you. You don't even have to be who you were before that. You can choose. We are all creatures of our own devising.
Robin Hobb
#7. People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?
Dale Carnegie
#8. The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.
Rob Paulsen
#9. I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.
David Lee Roth
#10. The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.
Louis C.K.
#11. Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.
Jason Calacanis
#12. The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself.
Leo Burnett
#13. The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.
Ray Lewis
#14. Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
Fred Rogers
#15. I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.
Gabriel Byrne
#16. I hold still against her, taking one final look at this amazing, beautiful girl beneath me. "You're the greatest thing that's ever happened to my life," I whisper.
Colleen Hoover
#17. They were going crazy in Kansas. People were up to 9 p.m. I think that was the greatest thing to happen to Kansas since the eradication of the boll weevil.
Jay Leno
#18. The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.
Roy Acuff
#19. When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.
Brendan Sexton III
#20. The Greatest thing about masturbation is that it is always available. I wager that many a condemn man has consoled himself this way during the night before his execution.
Robert Anton Wilson
#21. There's no doubt that becoming a mother was the greatest thing I'll ever do.
Kim Basinger
#22. Do you believe that God is the greatest thing you can experience in the whole world?
Francis Chan
#23. You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
Questlove
#24. The greatest thing you do as a leader may not
be what you do as a leader but who watches you
do what you do.
Andy Stanley
#25. Identity the greatest thing that ever happened to all humanity on earth. Identity the source of knowing who you are and where you come from. Identity the source of understanding yourself and makes you proud to be the person who you are, the daughter, the son of the Most High God.
Euginia Herlihy
#26. It's starting to look like Donald Trump may be a serious presidential candidate. If you're in my line of work, Trump running for president for real is the greatest thing that has ever happened.
Conan O'Brien
#27. Once you become a mother, your heart is no longer yours ... My daughter is the greatest thing I'll ever do in my life.
Kim Basinger
#28. I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.
Jenna Elfman
#29. The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
David Lynch
#30. The greatest thing that gives me peace about time is knowing that I get to make choices about what I do with it. I also find it amazing that when there is something I really want to do, I find the time for it.
Sheri Kaye Hoff
#31. You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.
Ksenia Solo
#32. The greatest thing we can do to be closer to our own lives and to the freshness of living is to open up again.
Mark Nepo
#33. Sex with love is the greatest thing in life. But sex without love
that's not so bad either.
Mae West
#34. Nobody wants to be nothing. But that's the greatest thing in the world to be.
Marty Rubin
#35. Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart
#36. The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.
Michael Ovitz
#37. That's all that matters. The greatest thing is to have someone who loves you and - and to love in return. People who haven't got it - or had it - don't believe that, but it's the truth.
Winston Graham
#38. The greatest thing that can happen to the state of Queensland and the nation of Australia would be if and when we get rid of the media. Then we would live in peace and tranquility - but no one would know anything!.
Johannes "Joh" Bjelke-Petersen
#39. The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!
Charles Kuralt
#40. During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.
Michael Winner
#41. From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.
Desmond Green
#42. I will never joke about old soldiers who try to get to reunions to talk over the war again. To talk of old times with old friends is the greatest thing in the world.
Will Rogers
#43. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#44. When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
Howard Nemerov
#45. The greatest thing you will ever give to the world is your committment to leave what you find in better condition than the way you found it. Leave a single light in a place where there was once darkness so those coming behind you may see further and begin where you left.
Tonny K. Brown
#46. When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.
Lisa Rinna
#47. To have a job making people laugh really is the greatest thing.
Judy Gold
#48. The greatest thing a father can do for his daughter is to love her mother.
Elaine S. Dalton
#49. There's such a freewheeling nature to 'Second City,' and the greatest thing about 'Second City' was having a sophisticated audience night after night who appreciated what it was. They knew it wasn't all going to be great when you improvised, so they were very forgiving that way.
Steve Carell
#50. And he made a home run, and his team won the state championship. The greatest thing about this story is that every time my dad tells it, it never changes. He's not one to exaggerate.
Stephen Chbosky
#51. I never envisioned being number one for five weeks, knocking Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men off the charts. That's the scariest thing and the greatest thing that ever happened to me.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
#52. To be able to go the distance with a brother or sister, to have them turn into your ally, is about the greatest thing that can ever happen to you.
Marie Brenner
#53. The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. You have to think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread, but you have to know that you're not.
Bette Midler
#55. I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen
#56. I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my father. And then the greatest thing that happened to me was when I saw the light, and realized I needed to love him in a way that he could love me back.
Steven Spielberg
#57. The greatest thing each person can do is to give himself to God utterly and unconditionally - weaknesses, fears, and all. For God loves obedience more than good intentions or second-best offerings, which are all too often made under the guise of weakness.
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.
Gary Kemp
#59. Marriage can and should be the greatest thing that happens to you in this life, along with having children. We need to make the most of it and work to make it that great experience we dreamed about when we were young.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#60. All the kids are gone. It's the greatest thing that has ever happened to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hanks. I'll tell you that right now. Second greatest after having the kids in the first place. When they go, holy smoke, it's like you're dating again. It's fantastic. Also, we were doing an awful lot of work.
Tom Hanks
#61. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Baz Luhrmann
#62. Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
Jim Carrey
#63. To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money.
Stephen King
#64. There's no downside to fame and people who whine about it make me sick. It's the greatest thing in the world.
Jerry Seinfeld
#65. And what is the sea?" asked Will.
"The sea!" cried the miller. "Lord help us all, it is the greatest thing God made!
Robert Louis Stevenson
#66. I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background, and I think the greatest thing to do is to pray that God will give you love for them, and I do.
Billy Graham
#67. Before you've seen it, and when you first see it, it is the greatest thing; afterwards, it is ordinary.
Gautama Buddha
#68. I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.
Woody Allen
#69. the greatest thing about having so many laws was that you could pick and choose, and move on to the next when the last lost its magic.
Jennifer Traig
#70. The greatest thing I have learned is how good it is to come home again. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Noelle Hancock
#71. True love is the greatest thing in the world-except for a nice MLT - mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe." -The Princess Bride
Madelyn Hill
#73. Discipline is the greatest thing in the world. Where there is no discipline, there is no character. And without character, there is no progress ...
James C. Collins
#74. I think it's natural for a creative to be sensitive. If I'm in the studio and I write something, I think it's the greatest thing in the world; it's like my baby. I just made something out of thin air that exists now in a tangible form. It's the biggest thrill in my life.
G-Eazy
#75. I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
Erica Jong
#76. I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.
Sophia Bush
#77. The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
Karen Fairchild
#78. Yes, it is - a very great deal, for it is a beginning. And a beginning is the greatest thing of all. To try to be brave is to be brave. The coward who tries to be brave is before the man who is brave because he is made so, and never had to try.
George MacDonald
#79. Sometimes in TV, it can get really stale, especially if you're doing these 23-episode years. It's a lot of work, and to put your family through that, on a location, is not always the greatest thing in the world.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
#80. The greatest thing we can give to anyone, that's free & never cost anything is HOPE. Give Others HOPE ... Now that's some concept!
Timothy Pina
#81. Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.
Jean Rook
#82. The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden
#83. With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
Imelda May
#84. I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.
Muhammad Ali
#85. What is the greatest thing in us is our Spirit, is the Spirit that we have and we should know that we should be proud of it that we have got the Spirit within us. And if you become proud, then you will not do nonsensical things.
Nirmala Srivastava
#86. The greatest thing about you is that you made me hungry.
The greatest thing about you is that you made sure you remain the only hunger. '
' We should never break things we have to mend ourselves
Sheenginee B.
#87. We're not the greatest thing in the universe, certainly not the smartest. Seems logical there'd be a great many things in it we can't comprehend.
Sylvain Neuvel
#88. Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
Caroline Myss
#89. The greatest thing about speaking the truth is that you never have to remember what you said." -Judge Judy
Benjamin D. Cox
#91. I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.
Elijah Wood
#92. You are the greatest thing that ever happen to you, Life is more important than anything else. Live the life to the fullest.
Giridhar Alwar
#93. Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
Garrett Hedlund
#94. The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live ... . He has penetrated the whole mystery of life: giving thanks for everything.
Ann Voskamp
#95. The greatest thing you'll learn is just to love and be loved in return - Eden Ahbez
Karla M. Nashar
#96. Motherhood is the greatest thing I've ever done in my life.
Sara Rue
#97. The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, she says, raising the silver chalice to our lips. Receiving from her is my favorite part of Sunday services. She always says her line with such joy, like it is the greatest thing in the world, which, of course, it is.
Lauren F. Winner
#98. The opportunity to be a storyteller is the greatest thing in the world, and I feel so lucky and really love it.
T. J. Thyne
#99. Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.
Nick Cave
#100. That's the greatest thing about comedy. If you've got talent, it's unmistakable. No one misses it and you don't have to wait around for a break. It's very easy to get a break. It's very hard to be good enough.
Judd Apatow
