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Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.
There's so much rich interaction with drivers that we take for granted. It seems like a mundane thing, but it turns out to be a really big deal.
I love this country because I didn't always have it. Freedom, food, water that is clean, Constitution - these are not things I take for granted.
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just cherish them and try to make the most of them.
We take everything for granted, but when I'm with Angeline, I see the world through new eyes. She makes my world better. It's why she's so great.
I'm very fortunate to be in the position that I am, to be able to play the sport that I love every single day. I'm never taking that for granted.
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted.
Freedom means everything to me. It is the most essential right that every person deserves. Most people take it for granted, but not North Koreans.
No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
A god cannot procure death for himself, even if he wished it, which, so numerous are the evils of life, has been granted to man as our chief good.
The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane - those aspects of everyday life that locals take for granted and tourists tend to overlook.
I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.
I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.
I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the course of my life.
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.
In life, try your best to do the right thing. Have fun while you're alive. Take advantage of every asset you have. Don't take anything for granted.
Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm's reach.
Divorce is never a nice thing, but it's very easy to take family for granted, and when there's a divorce, you don't take things for granted so much.
Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.
Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.
Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.
That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.
Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.
But you can never take anything for granted in the FA Cup, because an upset is always only just around the corner, and I have experienced those too.
I came from a background where access to museum culture was rarely granted, and, when you got it, people wondered what the hell you were doing there.
Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly.
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted.
Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'
I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.
People come up to me and pay their respects by telling me how I was a big part of their childhood. I do not take that for granted, not for one second.
I have always found myself trying to study and analyze the world around me - not just taking everything for granted and following whatever is popular.
The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.
I never took things for granted. I always told myself to keep working hard, come to the ballpark ready to play, and one day I'll get a chance to play.
I've dominated past competitions, but I've sweated blood and tears for every medal. I take nothing for granted, and I'm fully focused on doing my best.
We take the sense of touch for granted. Think about it: Without it, you're missing one of the basic senses that enables you to interact with the world.
Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.
It has been an amazing presidential election in 2016. AMAZING. And I don't take it for granted. This sort of race comes along once every century or so.
I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life.
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
I'm sorry if I took some things for granted, I'm sorry for the chains I put on you. But more than anything, I'm sorry for myself for living without you.
At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
You proclaim that one should die for the highest virtues, because you take it for granted that nobody's been living for them, not even for a single hour.
Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.
And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.
Unless confronted by an immediate, visible, or uncomfortable crisis, our nation's tendency is to take the security of the Western Hemisphere for granted.
I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.