Gift Quotes

"To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty"

Rowan D. Williams, Clergyman

"For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift"

Minna Antrim, Writer

"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife"

Louise Brooks, Actress

"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going"

Robin Trower, Musician

"The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn"

Robin Trower, Musician

"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift"

Zac Efron, Actor

"Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari"

Dean Koontz, Author

"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy"

Meryl Streep, Actress

"The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"A thick skin is a gift from God"

Konrad Adenauer, Statesman

"The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church"

Edith Stein, Saint

"We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear"

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Psychologist

"Food is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves and to others"

Jamie Oliver, Chef

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection"

Bea Arthur, Actress

"A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal"

Charles King, Politician

"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"Freedom is such a gift"

Ryan Gosling, Actor

"President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"One needs a Seer's Vision and an Angel's voice to be of any avail. I do not know of any Indian man or woman today who has those gifts in their most complete measure"

Sarojini Naidu, Politician

"Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection"

Pindar, Poet

"Growing up Catholic has been a gift"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

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