Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
The Free State men, myself among them, took it for granted that Missouri was a slave state.
There's a million ways to live on this thing called a planet, I'mma live everyday, I ain't takin' nothing for granted.
So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of.
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.
We have got to go and compete for the minds and the hearts and the votes of everybody in this country, no matter who they are. And what I think we`ve had is one party takes a group of people for granted and another party has not paid attention to them.
I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.
I feel that in the past, my style has shown itself to be capable of handling dark and light in the same paragraph, or even in the same sentence. That's something I almost take for granted. I think it was more a concern to get the details right and persuasively recreate the world I was trying to write about.
For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.
To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.
Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again.
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.