I was never really brought into the show business side of my father's life. I guess that's been a blessing and a downfall. But it's made my own work the initiation.
If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing, you see, I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.
As soon as I go into a dark subject, like discussing the people I've loved and lost, I off-road into absurdist comedy perversion. It's both a means of protection and a kind of denial, a blessing and a curse. Wait, it's not a blessing at all. I guess it would be a bad habit and a curse.
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Next month, I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride, Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
To do a 'Bond' picture is a blessing but also a curse.
I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.
I believe that rejection is a blessing because it's the universe's way of telling you that there's something better out there.
My own life has had so many twists that I keep thinking I'll have one blessing that is not in disguise.
Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
At times, it was an incredible blessing to have all the attention; at times it was a logistical nightmare.
Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.
Money to me is just the biggest blessing in the world that allows me freedom.
When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.
I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
An enchanted love, an awakened love, between two people is a blessing on the entire world.
Ministers are powerless people who have nothing to boast of except their weaknesses. But when the Lord whom they serve fills them with His blessing they will move mountains and change the hearts of people wherever they go.
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
Blessing is the soveraign act of God, and the power of benediction like the power of God.
My son is a blessing in every way.
And I think the blessing of heaven is on Bush. It's just the way it is.
And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.
I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect.
One of the cries from the people was, don't forget us. They have a long road ahead of them. Operation Blessing has found those little fishing towns. They will not be getting what other towns are getting from the government.
I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.
It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, independence now and independence forever.
For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.
Why has God given me such magnificent talent? It is a curse as well as a great blessing.
Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing.
I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
The most important thing is God's blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about.
The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
I know that my grandfather is 92 years old. And he has seen this country evolve in amazing ways. He looks at South Carolina and he says, wow, what an amazing state that we have the blessing to live within because of the evolution.
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
