What We Take For Granted Quotes

#1. what we charish is not important,what we take for granted is.

Melissa J. Morgan

#2. I was, in reality, bred by my parents as my father's concubine ... What we take for granted as the stability of family life may well depend on the sexual slavery of our children. What's more, this is a cynical arrangement our institutions have colluded to conceal.

Sylvia Fraser

#3. What we take for granted might not be here for our children.

Al Gore

#4. The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable ... that what we take for granted may not be here for our children

Al Gore

#5. If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic - being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Elon Musk

#6. If history is any guide, much of what we take for granted simply isn't true.

John Hagelin

#7. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

Barack Obama

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Such is the perversity of human nature that what we have in abundance-our work, our possessions, and the beauty of our surroundings-we take for granted and learn to ignore, so that we are often paralyzed by boredom, indifference, and ingratitude.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#9. Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

Richard Wright

#10. When people are on the same page, when they agree wholeheartedly, when they see eye to eye, very little learning actually takes place. Insight and learning only occur when what we experience in the moment conflicts, clashes with, or expands our awareness beyond what we know or take for granted.

Jeffrey Russell

#11. You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#12. ...we can do some historical research to see how our ancestors lived. We will quickly discover that we are living in what to them would have been a dream world that we tend to take for granted things that our ancestors had to live without...

William B. Irvine

#13. Most of what's around us we take for granted. We ignore it. Appreciation-spending time looking for the good-helps us overcome one of the primary limitations to enjoying the wealth we already have: ignoreance.

Peter McWilliams

#14. He was finally feeling what is it to be loved by somebody. To be cared for. To be missed. The simple things that we all take for granted ...

S.C. Stephens

#15. Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it asks you to think, to perceive and not to take for granted what we think about the world.

Dan Beachy-Quick

#16. Some people only dream about touring around the world with their friends and that's exactly what we're doing, and we could never take that for granted.

Taylor York

#17. We may well ask, What causes induce us to believe in the existence of body? but 'tis vain to ask. Whether there be body or not? That is a point which we must take for granted in all our reasonings.

David Hume

#18. Let us not take what we eat for granted; let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

Dillon Burroughs

#19. Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today. That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

Scott Walker

#20. I think people in England take things for granted, we complain about our NHS system and yes it's not perfect but believe me it's far better than what they've got here.

Alesha Dixon

#21. A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.

Tim Schafer

#22. This is a book of warning. It is a reminder that what we have is valuable, and that sometimes we take what we value for granted. There

Ray Bradbury

#23. I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.

Doris Lessing

#25. To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted

George Keller

#26. We take things for granted, and because we wake up every day, you start talking about what you're going to do next week. I said, 'Who told you you would be here next week?'

Bobby Womack

#27. As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

Martin Parr

#28. [Be grateful for the simple things in life. Don't take them for granted. After all ... ] What would a blind man give to see the pleasant rivers and meadows and flowers and fountains; and this and many other like blessings we enjoy daily.

Izaak Walton

#29. We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

Axl Rose

#30. What we witness at the fea is not just a celebration of the multiplicity of modernities but also, and more importantly, a critical commentary on local structures of inequality that take for granted that both tradition and modernity are the prerogatives of the high ranking and wealthy.

Niko Besnier

#31. I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that's very brave - someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what's happened.

George Eads

#32. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.

Aldous Huxley

#33. What I worry about the most is the competition for young eyeballs. We have so many other competing forms of media. I don't take any audience members for granted.

Chris Meledandri

#34. I guess that's just how people are. We take for granted that we'll always have the chance to tell someone what they mean to us. We take for granted that nothing is going to happen to them, and so we all walk around not realizing how much we're loved. How much we're valued.

Debra Dockter

#35. Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted.Each one of us has fears,but the more we work to overome them,the more we are able to enjoy our lives.

Demi Lovato

#36. In the rush of life, it is quite easy to forget what's important. As cliche as this is, it's easy to take life for granted when you don't have time to focus properly. It is only when life diverts from the 'plan' that we suddenly take time to see what is really important.

Leigh Hershkovich

#37. You can't take it for granted. Even if we have two, three days off I still have to blow that horn a few hours to keep up the chops. I mean I've been playing 50 years, and that's what I've been doing in order to keep in that groove there.

Louis Armstrong

#38. It was the evangelicals who led the fight against slavery, child labor, poor factory conditions, and the abuse of the poor and the insane. Much of what we value in modern social legislation, and perhaps take for granted, grew out of the ministry of Wesley and Whitefield and their successors.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#39. It is only by questioning what people take for granted, what people hold to be true, that we can break through the hypnosis of social conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

#40. Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it.

Bill Gates

#41. Private enterprise and private life depend on nurturant morality, but so does freedom in American life. Freedom is what public resources provide - freedom in a way that we take for granted but that needs to be brought out in the open.

George Lakoff

#42. All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.

Jay Michaelson

#43. We (women) take it for granted that we can do what we want. Not so very long ago, that was not the case.

Clare Wright

#44. We do not take moonlight for granted. It is like snow, or like dew on a July morning. It does not reveal but changes what it covers.

Richard Adams

#45. I think what it means to be an 'American Girl,' and what I wrote the song about, is our freedoms. The idea that we as Americans can be what we want to be and say what we want to say and that we take it for granted.

Bonnie McKee

#46. We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.

Vera Farmiga

#47. We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.

Ranbir Kapoor