Blessed Quotes

"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success"

Barack Obama, President

"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

"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

"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

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

Don Henley, Musician

"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

"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

"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

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

Dan Fogelberg, 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

"Death is the most blessed dream"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"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

"The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too"

Elton John, Musician

"If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past"

Bodhidharma, Leader

"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

"Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions"

E. O. Wilson, Scientist

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

Marianne Williamson, Author

"I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have"

Mandy Patinkin, Actor

"We just done doing The Blessed Hellride tour and Ozzfest"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it"

Brian Welch, Musician

"Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

"Charlie and I were never blessed with children"

Marge Schott, Businessman

"I feel really blessed because of where I come from"

Katy Perry, Musician

"I have been blessed with working with the best in the business"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"But when you're a working actor - and that's what you keep saying in your head, how blessed you are to have a job - and you are working with heavyweights, working with the best guys in TV, it's pretty cool. Exhausting, but cool"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"I have no great urge to be minister of this or minister of that, but instead would feel incredible blessed to have the opportunity to be a champion for a constituency and fight for their cause"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

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