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Quotes About Acknowledgment

Understanding how or why is very seldom as useful as understanding that things are. I am.
~ Robin Hobb
Not being able to think of a reply is not the same thing as accepting another's words.
~ Robin Hobb
There are two words that you should use frequently in your youth: ´sorry´ and ´thank-you´. Use the first one as often as possible, so that on your death bed all that you have to say to your friends is ´thank-you!´.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
Take it and be thankful.
~ Robin Jones Gunn
We've come a long way, haven't we, God?
~ Robin Lee Hatcher
People understood that when lives are given on their behalf they have received something precious. Ceremonies are a way to give something precious in return.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Just about everything we use is the result of another's life, but that simple reality is rarely acknowledged in our society.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
beginning with where our feet first touch the earth, we send greetings and thanks to all members of the natural world.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
the Thanksgiving Address was spoken to greet the day: "Let us put our minds together as one and send greetings and thanks to our Mother Earth, who sustains our lives with her many gifts.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
When they abandoned gratitude, the gifts abandoned them.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
It is said that the people were instructed to stand and offer these words whenever they gathered, no matter how many or how few, before anything else was done. In this ritual, their teachers remind them that every day, "beginning with where our feet first touch the earth, we send greetings and thanks to all members of the natural world.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
By those (ceremonial) words we said "Here we are," and I imagined that the land heard us—murmured to itself, "Ohh, here are the ones who know how to say thank you.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
We have now arrived at the place where we end our words. Of all the things we have named, it is not our intention to leave anything out. If something was forgotten, we leave it to each individual to send such greetings and thanks in their own way. And now our minds are one.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Whew," he said. "You clean up good . You don't look like the same girl." She frowned right before she laughed. "Do women usually thank you for saying things like that?
~ Robyn Carr
Wow," she said. "Do you realise how wonderful you sound?" "Yes, I do," he said with a firm nod. "And I think I'm underappreciated.
~ Robyn Carr
MY PAIN IS NAMED
~ Lisa Gardner
Thank you, Your Honor." Bennie
~ Lisa Scottoline
mine. "Oh, I mean that as a compliment
~ Lisa Scottoline
you very much, and now I'll take
~ Lisa Scottoline
all mistakes are my own
~ Lisa See
you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.
~ Lois Lowry
Never," said Kareen with passion, "ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Your birthday was the seventeenth of last month, in point of fact." "I missed it anyway, then." He closed the bag and stuffed the uniform far back in his closet. "Not important." "It's important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Oh look! I'm one of those!
~ Lon Milo DuQuette