Quotes About Appreciation

Ain't but three things in this world worth a solitary dime/ But old dogs, children, and watermelon wine

One thing that is known is that they do not look at paintings very long.

We spend time with a painting to try to understand it, but how much time we spend with a painting is driven by how much we understand of it.

I always had a great appreciation for jazz, but I'm a very pedestrian musician. I get by. I like to think that my main instrument is vocabulary.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy , but how much you enjoy what you have. Tom Wilson

One man's trash ends up another man's wife.

There is no more powerful form of rejection than taking someone for granted.

Her boyfriend gives her a Mercedes, [her friends] say, 'Oh, that's nice.' But her boyfriend gives her a diamond, they say, 'Oh, he's serious.' It's not just the gift of love-it's the gift of commitment. She's not jumping up and down because she got a diamond ring but because she got a guy! There are those who say you don't need diamonds. I say they're right. Just like you don't need sex.

Amy King is a true bard.

Today is today. And it is a gift

Thanks to my parents, whose unconditional love, encouragement, and affirmation freed me to chart my own course and follow my dream. As the years go by, my appreciation grows for the example they set and the wisdom they passed down. Boundless thanks to my wife, Kristin, who never let me forget how much she believed

Never take anyone or anything for granite!

In the name of the United States and President Bush, I want to thank the Mexican people, President Fox and his government for their friendship.

I feel audiences are not given enough credit for their intelligence.

My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

Look, if I ever stop being grateful for gigs, I just need to stop. Because this business is... you know, it's just so kind of job-to-job, and the fact that I've continued working... I'm just incredibly thankful for it. And I never, ever take it for granted.

Memorize places," his uncle had told him. "Settle your eyes on a place and learn it. See it under the snow, and when first grass is growing, and as the rain falls on it. Feel it and smell it, walk on it, touch the stones, and it will be with you forever. When you are far away, you can call it back. When you need it, it is there, in your mind.

The red light changed the color of her shirt, and her faded jeans, and her face. Her hair was disheveled, her expression intent, and, taken all together, she looked absolutely beautiful to Jim Chee. It would be a lot better, he thought, if friends didn't look like that.

In the meantime, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty, and when we see it, what we do is natural: we take our burned hands out of our pockets, and clap.

Weren't they one of those one-hit wonder bands, like Dexys Midnight Runners and shit?" "Dexys weren't one-hit wonders back home. They were a good band. That fucking 'Come On Eileen' shit was not what they were all about.

In our rush to find a better situation in time, we trample over the flower of beingness that presents itself in every moment.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.