Blessed Quotes

"My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Happy and fortunate indeed would this nation be, nay, completely blessed, if it had good prelates and pastors, and but one prince, and that prince a good one"

Giraldus Cambrensis, Clergyman

"God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things"

Stevie Wonder, Musician

"When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa"

Hakeem Olajuwon, Athlete

"I've been blessed with some lovely scripts and a character that people could truly identify with. It's one of those surprises in life that makes you think, 'God was smiling on me that particular day"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed"

Bennett Cerf, Journalist

"I come here tonight as a sister, blessed with a brother who is my mentor, my protector and my lifelong friend. And I come here as a wife who loves my husband and believes he will be an extraordinary president"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people"

Denzil Douglas, Statesman

"Death is the most blessed dream"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

"Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age"

Candice Bergen, Actress

"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"But listen, I'm 29-years-old, I'm really lucky to be there and whatever happens I've been really blessed already. I have plenty of awards for this movie and if this was it for me I'd be really content"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

"I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough"

Don Henley, Musician

"Mr. Speaker, we are a blessed Nation. We have not suffered another attack on our soil since September 11, and we are grateful. We have killed or captured dozens of members of al Qaeda and the Taliban. Our military and intelligence forces are working both hard and smart"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"The best is he who calls men to the best. And those who heed the call are also blessed. But worthless who call not, heed not, but rest"

Hesiod, Poet

"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him"

John Burroughs, Author

"I feel blessed to be here representing our country and carrying out th research of scientists around the world... I hope you could feel the positive energy that beamed to the whole planet as we glided over"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

"If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed"

Marianne Williamson, Author

"I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"I'm extremely happy in my life. I consider myself to be very blessed"

Joan Collins, Actress

"We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian; and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed"

Rick Allen, Musician

"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going"

Robin Trower, Musician

"I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"I look at my career and it's still hard for me to believe the way things turned out and how things happened. I've been so blessed"

John Elway, Athlete

"I was blessed to work with The Jazz Messengers when the two piano players were Keith Jarrett and Chick Corea"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

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