Top 420 Granted Quotes

It is to the advantage of Hispanics not to be taken for granted by one party and ignored by the other. Hispanics will realize their political power only if courted and engaged by both sides.

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, ‘Colbert’ has been destination viewing. Even in the early years, we never took the show’s excellence for granted, agreeing that someday we’d look back on the double whammy of ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ as the golden age of TV’s singeing singing satire.

I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take me for a walk and then always dropped me to school. I was very disciplined, as my father inculcated those values in me. Now that my father is no more, I understand that you should not take your parents for granted.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don’t believe they are as much alive as we are.

I will do everything, everything in my power, for as long as I am here, to enable the people of King Cove to receive proper emergency access that the rest of us take for granted.

I’m a lucky guy. I don’t take for granted, for one minute, what I do.

It’s now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early ’90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don’t realize happened.

I am a proud man and never takes things for granted in my life.

I feel very lucky that I’ve chosen to work in a style that is based on good vibes, and you tend to get good vibes in return. But I don’t take it for granted. It was a choice.

I think there was a reason God helped me escape… and I don’t take my freedom for granted.

After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.

To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

I don’t take tomorrow for granted.

The older you get, you might think you have it all figured out, but you are never too old to work on fundamentals. You can’t take anything for granted in this business.

Nothing should be taken for granted, even if everybody believes it.

Sometimes you take for granted what you have on your own doorstep.

I find I get fixed in my ways if I don’t change. I think I take too many things for granted.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

America has granted every wish of black Americans. It has made government the head of the black family; it has integrated the schools and neighborhoods; it has given blacks welfare and affirmative action; it has even apologized through Bill Clinton. There is simply nothing else that America can or should do.

We don’t really make bad records, though some people might like some more than others. And we have never really done a bad show. So I think in a way maybe we’ve been taken for granted.

I will never take my experience for granted, because it’s been a blessing.

I don’t take anything for granted. In the beginning, my parents put a lot of money on the table so I could live my dream, without putting any pressure on us. We made our own way. But I’ve seen so many players come and go that I never, not for one minute, thought I could rack up millions on the tour.

I just think that my road has been so difficult to get where I’m at that I don’t take anything for granted.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t take anything for granted. But it seems like the better I play, the more attention I get. And I can’t get away from it. You play great, you get attention. But I hate attention. It is weird. I’m in a bind. The more you win, the more they come.

Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted.

My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I’m getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I’m lucky. I never want to take it for granted.

It’s been a big dream of mine, and I’m blessed to live out my dream and that’s to be a role model and be somebody that can help and be a beacon of hope for my cities. It’s just a blessing, and I don’t take it for granted at all.

The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.

When you’re an actor, people just take it for granted that you’re really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

When it comes to fighting for citizenship that many people take for granted, there isn’t anyone I would not talk to. When it comes to immigration, there isn’t any question I will not answer.

A lot of us take the game for granted, but that’s not the case for me. I’m truly humbled by the game and when I say it, I mean it.

In the sudden absence of husbands, fathers, brothers and beaus, white Southern women discovered a newfound freedom – one that simultaneously granted them more power in relationships and increased their likelihood of heartbreak.

I don’t take nothing for granted.

Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.

Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That’s outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.

When Hegel later became a man of influence’ he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.

When you don’t take what you have for granted, you constantly try to re-prove yourself to yourself rather than to other people.

My years with failing vision have prompted me to learn about the nature of the eye and the incredible gift of sight, which I had always taken for granted until it began to slip away.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

I am not taking for granted a call-up to the England squad or making any assumption about my future international career.

I believe that if you work hard at a relationship, devoting time and energy to it, being willing to grow and experiment, and never take it for granted, that you can continue to feel the initial attraction and excitement indefinitely.

You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.

In looking at difficulties in the black American community over the years, it has always astounded me how much white Americans take for granted the rich and utterly decisive heritage of Western culture.

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it’s really amazing. I don’t take that for granted.

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can’t ever remember wanting to do anything else. I’ve just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn’t appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.

But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live.

I think that a lot of people, especially as technology began to speed up and we became more distant, we kind of started to lose our appreciation for human contact and gathering and friendships and a lot of the things that we really took for granted.

I try to take time to find joy out of life, and I don’t take a day for granted like I used to.

If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There’s so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.

I think I’ve been wishing for celebrity for so long that I’ve got used to being someone who’s petitioning the establishment for acceptance… my whole schtick, my whole identity, is so wrapped up in being a petitioner that I don’t really know how to react now that petition has been granted.