Gift Quotes

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever"

Jimmy Carter, President

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within"

Plautus, Playwright

"I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

"Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie"

Earl Wilson, Athlete

"Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then you don't have to be all about three-chord pop songs. I don't really like that kind of writing"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another"

Bono, Musician

"I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it"

John Lennon, Musician

"A book is a gift you can open again and again"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

"Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm"

Bruce Barton, Author

"If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped"

Nadine Gordimer, Novelist

"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons"

John Webster, Playwright

"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly"

Loretta Young, Actress

"What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go"

Jean Paul, Author

"The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it"

Dennis Weaver, Actor

"So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me"

Alice Walker, Author

"You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty"

Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

"I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner"

Jonas Salk, Scientist

"I think everybody has a gift. It's up to us as individuals to tap into it"

Slash, Musician

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