#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. ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#being #believe #granted #i #living

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not. ↗

— John McGahern

#around #becomes #danger #forever #going

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#granted #guess #i #people #respectability

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. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#bestowed #brought #cannot #deserved #few

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#full #granted #nation #pause #political

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#democratic #democratic party #granted #off #often

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of the grave. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#breath #brief #brief moment #granted #grave

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft. ↗

— James Houston

#build #carve #cross #daily #granted

We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#had #moments #person #take #those

There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury. ↗

— Patty Hearst

#been #called #confessed #grand #grand jury