Dimly I heard someone murmur ‘Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on,’ and then the owl-eyed man said ‘Amen to that,’ in a brave voice. – F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby. Chapter 9. A voice at Gatsby’s funeral calls him blessed, as if the rain falling on him is purifying him, like a baptism after death.
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
I genuinely do think that skin does have a lot to do with genetics. I was blessed. You should see my mom and grandma – it’s unfair! – Hailey Baldwin
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. – Henry Kissinger
My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. – Hamlin Garland
Every missionary who is proclaiming the name and gospel of Jesus Christ will be blessed by daily feasting from the Book of Mormon. – Henry B. Eyring
I can’t even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me. – Holly Holm
Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. – Henri Nouwen
I’ve been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I’d call myself sensible. I’ve had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well. – Harriet Walter
I’ve certainly been very blessed. I can only say that I worked very hard in class and on set doing the best that I can at the moment. I was incredibly blessed with ‘Battlestar’… I tried to work my little butt off just to keep up with everybody else and not too many people kicked me. – Grace Park
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
I certainly do all sorts of work. I’m very, very blessed to do drama and other types of television, and things like that, but I always go back to sci-fi, whenever possible, because that’s really exciting for me. – Gina Holden
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God. – Henry Kissinger
I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun. – Guy Laliberte
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
Leonardo Dicaprio didn’t change his name, Emilio Estevez didn’t change his name. But every case is different. I only have one reference of what my career was and I was very, very blessed and very, very lucky, and it got started very quickly after college. And I only know that by going with Roday. – James Roday
As far as people I’d like to work with, the list is endless. I think to work with Steve McQueen would be amazing, and then some of the U.K. talent we have: Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman, both of whom I have met and admired for a long time. We’re very blessed in this country; there is so much talent for people to work with and learn from. – James Norton
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn’t really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I’ve been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I’ve been in the NBA. – James Harden
We all have a responsibility, and since I’ve been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity. – Gladys Knight
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
In this era of uncertainty and conflict, the United States – blessed with the world’s strongest military, most ingenious economy, and most tolerant society – remains a model and leader to the world. – Joe Lieberman
When you grow up as the daughters of George and Laura Bush, you develop a special appreciation for how blessed we are to live in this great country. – Jenna Bush
I am aware how difficult is the task to preserve free institutions over so wide a space and so immense a population, but we are blessed with a Constitution admirably calculated to accomplish it. Its elastic power is unequaled, which is to be attributed to its federal character. – John C. Calhoun