How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

It was such a leap in my career when ‚Truman Show‘ came along. It’s always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that’s OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

I love my daddy. My daddy’s everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad.

It undoubtedly feels nice when you are being appreciated and you get complimented by girls. Who doesn’t like that? Having said that, I don’t take it as any pressure.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

I love life because what more is there?

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I’m screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I’m funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that’s appreciated by young people.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

If you look at the history of our country over the last 100 years, there have been periods where science and research have been celebrated. They were really kind of held up as heroes in society, which encouraged a generation of people to go into these fields.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

When trouble breaks out, our men and women in uniform, they don’t just sit around thinking about it or talking about it – they act. They put on that uniform. They leave their loved ones behind. They go out there. They give orders. They follow orders. They do whatever it takes to keep our country safe.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.