Quotes About Gratitude

I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.

My life has gotten so much better since I turned 40.

I feel like I've gotten more than a lot of people will ever get. I feel very fortunate.

Throughout my career, I have advocated for our service men and women, and I will continue to do all I can as governor to offer my support to those who have given us so much.

Grace happens every day.

I take whatever I can get with grace.

By the grace of God, my son's career is doing very well.

I know I am where I am today by the grace of God.

Every day, I think, by the grace of God, I'm here, blessed to be a U.S. citizen, but I could have just as easily been a Dreamer too.

I can say that I have lived very gracefully.

God has given me so much that I feel I must give to those who are less fortunate. I don't do it to be in anyone's good graces.

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.

I'm getting to the end of my magnifying glasses now. One eye's gone completely. The other is gradually dimming. Dimming - that sounds very dramatic, doesn't it? I'm so lucky. I can still make a living - and the same kind of living.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I'm at least smart enough to know I could never fill Billy Graham's shoes, but I'm grateful he gave me an opportunity to help him finish his race on earth well and to continue his life's work.

I like the story about Bon Iver. They said he kept his GRAMMY in, like, the basement bathroom so he could just focus on getting another one. If I won a GRAMMY, I'd probably keep it at my mom's house on 47th Street.

I've been able to win a Grammy and then to come back and get the key to the city of Watts.

Maybe I'll never get the Grammy. But maybe I will get things that are worth much, much more than any Grammy which could stand on my shelf.

I don't believe in materialistic gifts and grand gestures.

I've got the most fabulous children and grandchildren.

I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.

I'm blessed with four great children and eight grandchildren.

I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.

That's the best thing that's ever happened to me, bar none, is having grandchildren and living by them and being part of their lives.