Great Privilege Quotes
30 quotes by 29 authors
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He doesn't like my name... Of course we couldn't all come over on the Mayflower... But I got here as soon as I could, and…
— Anton Cermak
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It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain…
— Samuel Johnson
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But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the…
— Mark Twain
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The administration Ill bring is a group of men and women who are focused on whats best for America, honest men and women, decent men…
— George W. Bush
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I’ve always considered it a great privilege to be a musician, I’ve never lost sight of that.
— Natalie Merchant
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I have often said to the orchestra, especially to the younger players, 'Do your best, and love what you are doing, because you are allowed…
— Herbert von Karajan
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I feel profoundly blessed. I feel it's a great privilege to make any motion picture.
— David O. Russell
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I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say that playing football is all I have ever wanted to do and…
— Paul Scholes
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I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is…
— Saul Leiter
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I have always felt it a great privilege to be in the theater, and I am grateful to all the playwrights who have given me…
— Alfred Lunt
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Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire…
— Lorenzo Snow
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I have the great privilege of being both witness and storyteller. Intimacy, trust and intuition guide my work.
— Jim Goldberg
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It is a great privilege, as well as our responsibility, to pray for our government leaders.
— Billy Graham
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We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and…
— Haskell Wexler
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Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences.…
— John Banville
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What a great privilege it is to be here
— Bonnie L. Oscarson
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I started being interested in acting when I heard the voices of Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness. Ive had…
— Kenneth Branagh
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It is a great privilege to be able to work with, and I suppose work off, my feelings through sculpture.
— Louise Bourgeois
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Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was…
— Mark Rydell
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I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest…
— Matt Damon
Who Wrote These Great Privilege Quotes
29 authors contributed a total of 30 Great Privilege Quotes, led by these top contributors: