Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity.
Donald C. Medeiros

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candice Bergen

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Jonathan Swift

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
John Nelson Darby

Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
Usher Raymond

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
Simon Wiesenthal

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
Aldous Huxley

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.
Merle Shain

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.
Carrot Top

The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.
Stanley Tucci

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
Randall Terry

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.
Mohamed Al-Fayed

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
E. F. Schumacher

The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
Jessica Hahn

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me.
Ryne Sandberg

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.
John James Audubon