David Gemmell Quotes

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

At times, we take freedom for granted. We really don't know how to cherish the freedom we have until it's taken from us.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves.

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

He that is taken and put into prisoner chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

Everyone hates their liberators in the end.

The struggle is my life.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

The Tunisian people will not bow. We will stay united against terrorism until we wipe out this phenomenon.

A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

You only recognize how good something is if you've been through the bad.

I don't want to take things for granted.

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

We are profoundly grateful for the blessings bestowed upon us: the preservation of our freedom, so dearly bought and so highly prized; our opportunities for human welfare and happiness, so limitless in their scope; our material prosperity, so far surpassing that of earlier years; and our private spiritual blessings, so deeply cherished by all. For these we offer fervent thanks to God.

The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity.

We sometimes think that being grateful is what we do after our problems are solved, but how terribly shortsighted that is. How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain? Being grateful in times of distress does not mean that we are pleased with our circumstances. It does mean that through the eyes of faith we look beyond our present-day challenges. This is not a gratitude of the lips but of the soul. It is a gratitude that heals the heart and expands the mind.