Quotes About Appreciation

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

Food is important to me, but I wouldn't say that I'm a gourmet. I don't like tricksy food.

I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.

I take whatever I can get with grace.

Grace is a quality in people that I just enjoy. It's a very human quality.

I think that what's bizarre to me about life is that sometimes you have to have everything taken away before you experience grace or before you actually recognize that grace can happen to you.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

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

I like 'The Graduate.' That's one of my favorites.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

That was one thing I wanted to win because, my mom, she didn't really know much else in music, but the Grammys were special to her.

I went to the Grand Canyon with my family when I was about 8 years old, and I had a very blah experience. I think the scale of it is too huge - you don't appreciate it.

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.

I always think of my grandfather as the original foodie. He was the slowest eater. He savored everything. Even when everyone was gone from the table, he was still eating.

I want to make an album my grandma and my fans are going to like. I want to make my grandma understand a drop and make club fans understand a song.

I would bake for my grandma because she has never had anything I've baked.

I love celebrating Mother's Day. Since I was a kid, it was a special day to tell my mother and grandmother how much I love them. Now that I'm a mom, it is a special day to spend with my children.

I'm like an international girl all day long. But I love the black women in my life: my grandmother, my mom.

My grandpa is the funniest person in the world, straight up. But mostly everyone in my family groans when he is 'on.' I am his biggest fan.

Even when my grandparents compliment me, I don't like when they do that.

My son Tusshar has given me a wonderful reason to be grateful for my life. My grandson has brought such joy in my family's lives.

When you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything.

Every day, I look at life different; I don't take things for granted.