Gift Quotes

"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers"

"Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit"

"I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore"

Carrie Fisher, Actress

"The conductor's gift does not always go hand in hand with that of composition; indeed, the union is found much more seldom than is popularly believed"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it"

Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist

"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face"

Steven Biko, Activist

"Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity"

Charles Colson, Lawyer

"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself"

John Jay Chapman, Poet

"Fidelity is a gift not a requirement"

Lilli Palmer, Actress

"The greatest gift is a 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"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic"

Vince McMahon, Entertainer

"I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge"

Matthew Arnold, Poet

"To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul"

Kate Chopin, Author

"Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays"

John Clayton

"He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life"

Robert Redford, Actor

"First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

"I consider everything I compose a gift"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"President Reagan is now at rest. We mourn his passing, but we are grateful for the gifts he gave us: a safer world, strong economic base, and a renewed belief in America's greatness"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"You know when I really realized like "wow" what a gift this is was when I sang at camp and a girl wrote me a letter and said the song that I sung kept her from committing suicide"

Charles King, Politician

"The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess"

Carter G. Woodson, Historian

"One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason"

William Godwin, Writer

"Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do"

Estelle Parsons, Actress

"A woman's gifts will make room for her"

Hattie McDaniel, Actress

"Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both"

Carroll O'Connor, Actor

"It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Tomorrow is no man's gift"

Gilbert Parker, Politician

"More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that"

Erykah Badu, Musician

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