Gift Quotes

"I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues"

"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money"

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"Songwriting is my gift from God"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it"

Lili Taylor, Actress

"The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality"

Florence Nightingale, Activist

"I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me"

Donald Sutherland, Actor

"Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us"

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Politician

"I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader"

Dick Schaap, Journalist

"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing"

Adam Clarke, Theologian

"A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate"

Guy Lafleur, Athlete

"We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets"

David Letterman, Comedian

"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other"

Carrie P. Snow

"I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically"

Don Johnson, Actor

"Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people"

Ed Miliband, Politician

"It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you"

Bobby Womack, Musician

"Feminism - the word - can give us a handle, a rallying point, a common ground, and help us build a bridge. Why not claim the gift of the word as a place to begin?"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11"

Bill Frist, Politician

"I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose"

Ashley Judd, Actress

"Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that"

Aretha Franklin, Musician

"The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self"

Francis of Assisi, Saint

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me"

Jim Valvano, Coach

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more"

Tony Robbins, Author

"This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful"

Prem Rawat, Leader

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain"

Joyce Cary, Novelist

"I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience"

Arnold Palmer, Athlete

"There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow"

Joseph Barber Lightfoot, Theologian

"You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"If, on occasion, the knowledge brought by science leads to an unhappy end, this is not to the discredit of science but is rather an indication of an imperfect ability to use wisely the gifts placed within our hands"

Polykarp Kusch, Scientist

"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace"

John Owen, Theologian

"The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts"

Ivan Illich, Sociologist

"I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able"

Charles Perrault, Author

"For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift"

Christoph Martin Wieland, Poet

"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us"

Boris Pasternak, Novelist

"No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God"

Saint Patrick, Saint

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