Gift Quotes

"The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them"

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present"

"I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given"

David Coverdale, Musician

"My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is"

Rebecca Lobo, Athlete

"Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that"

Sidney Sheldon, Novelist

"Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it"

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Author

"I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do"

Martina McBride, Musician

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination"

Moses Hadas, Writer

"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift"

Tim LaHaye, Clergyman

"Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before"

Rob Lowe, Actor

"There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known"

Robert Torricelli

"It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind"

Linda Blair, Actress

"The greatest gift is not being afraid to question"

Ruby Dee, Actress

"Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift"

Jules Shear, Musician

"Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift"

Kate DiCamillo, Author

"Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric"

James Broughton, Director

"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life"

Teena Marie, Musician

"This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time"

Teena Marie, Musician

"You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God"

John C. McGinley, Actor

"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"

Teena Marie, Musician

"I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

"I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong"

Karrie Webb, Athlete

"The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing"

Vince Gill, Musician

"Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another"

Thomas Hughes, Lawyer

"I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that"

Chris Kattan, Comedian

"One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy"

James Young, Musician

"One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service"

Sean Hannity, Writer

"What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation"

Robert Rainy, Clergyman

"It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be"

Nolan Ryan, Athlete

"And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior"

Mary McCarthy, Author

"While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness"

Gilda Radner, Actress

"I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings"

Ella R. Bloor

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