Granted Quotes

• We never take this stuff for granted. The longer we're out here, too, in a lot of ways, the more we appreciate it, because we see so many great acts who're out here with us, and you realize how steep the competition really is. So, this win is even better 'cause it says people are still digging what we're doing. We're still keeping it fresh and people are into it.

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Win
  • Competition

• Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Tomorrow
  • Granted
  • Promised

• Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Granted
  • Points
  • Yardstick

• We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.

  

  Menachem Begin
  • Father
  • Human
  • Civilization

• Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

  

  Sara Shepard
  • Friends
  • Eye
  • Enemies

• Freedom is never granted; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Granted

• I am not taking anything for granted.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Granted
  • Taking

• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Age
  • Hair

• I don't ever take anything for granted.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Anything
  • Ever
  • Granted

• I'm very aware of the chemistry. It's something you can't take for granted. I'm very thankful for it and I recognise the power of its reality in all of our lives. Some people don't and it's a mistake not to because people throw away god-given special chemistry that's very rare, very hard to find.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Reality
  • Mistake
  • Chemistry

• Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Music
  • Education
  • Granted

• I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

  

  Robin Gibb Bee Gees
  • World
  • Long
  • Wonder

• The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I've smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

  

  Akshay Kumar
  • Work
  • Body
  • Pieces

• Our German Fatherland to which I hope will be granted... to become in the future as closely united, as powerful, and as authoritative as once the Roman world-empire was, and that, just as in the old times they said, Civis romanus sum, hereafter, at some time in the future, they will say, I am a German citizen.

  

  Wilhelm II
  • Time
  • World
  • Hope

• Never assume you have everything pegged. Never tweak that last duck, and pat yourself on the back, and take everything else for granted. Because that's when god rips the mike out of your hand and says, out of nowhere, you might not come back from Dead Man's Curve. Say what? That's when you wake up in darkness, fumbling for the light switch

  

  Jan Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Light

• One of the reasons so many singles are dissatisfied is that they're looking for a change in status to define their significance, rather than finding a purpose in life, granted by God, that gives them significance regardless of the status they're in.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Reason
  • Findings
  • Significance

• I've always believed it's important to make the invisible visible. And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I've always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.

  

  Ai-jen Poo
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Live

• I'm a lucky guy. I don't take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

  

  Richie Sambora Bon Jovi
  • Guy
  • Lucky
  • Minutes

• I've never been the sort of person who takes things for granted, and I'm not an acquisitions girl. So I didn't feel entitled to a car when I was 16. Of course, I was bummed I didn't get one, because I was an American Texas teenager! But I understood it. I've never gotten my self-esteem from having the newest, most spectacular thing.

  

  Renee Zellweger
  • Teenager
  • Granted

• It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Americans
  • Prudent
  • Good Reason

• I think what everyone can do is start creating spaces and forums, talk to peers, friends and family, and start deconstructing these things we take for granted, unpack these old systems, in order to understand ourselves more deeply, to understand why we do the things we do and how our privileges affect other people's lack of privilege.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Believe
  • Tree
  • Granted

• If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Jobs
  • Executives

• I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Appreciation
  • Granted
  • Buddhism

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