Quotes About Appreciation

I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It's a privilege to play with him: he is breathtaking at times.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

You don't appreciate things until they're gone. For me, I miss my friends; I don't miss boxing, I miss the camaraderie.

Sometimes you don't quite realise what you have achieved until you look back.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

It's true what they say: 'You don't appreciate what you've got until it's gone.' I miss love. I miss being looked after.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

Don't go to the funeral until the day of the funeral. Live this day.

I like fashion. My mum was a dressmaker, believe it or not, so the consequence of that was that all my clothes were homemade, and I looked like a terrible mess until I was old enough to buy my own. But I love good tailoring.

I remember my father playing a cassette for me when I was fifteen - Amjad Ali's 'Durga.' He said, 'This is from our part of the world. You must listen to it.' And I continued rewinding it and listening to it from early evening until midnight. By the end of it, I was nearly in tears.

Men are much more likely to make sure the boss knows they were in the office until midnight. But women tend to avoid seeking that kind of acknowledgement for their work. They just assume that the boss knows - but the boss usually doesn't. I experienced that firsthand.

When you're streaking to the top yourself, it's important to remember who helped you get there untouched.

I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.

Actually, bizarrely, in America, I get more appreciation from the odd, unusual stuff I've done, almost because I'm not, if you like, famous in America as I am in England.

I picked 'It's Not Unusual,' and then I did the little hop that Tom Jones does and moved my hips. Tim loved it. He came up to me and said, 'Did you know that I used Tom Jones in 'Edward Scissorhands'?'

The love and unwavering support I get from my admirers is the biggest compliment.

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'