Gift Quotes

"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun"

James Lafferty, Actor

"Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction"

Alphonsus Liguori, Clergyman

"An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married"

Billie Burke, Actress

"I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won"

Betty Cuthbert, Athlete

"Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold"

Anita Brookner, Historian

"I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the most pain. Always a price to pay"

Alice Hoffman, Author

"But somehow I feel like still it's a gift, and I wonder, how can I give this gift to others? Just work hard, and do whatever I can do, to be that, and to return the love to the fans. I like to give them joy and smiles to them. Give back to them"

Bai Ling, Actress

"Love the giver more than the gift"

Brigham Young, Leader

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you"

Les Brown, Businessman

"Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few"

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton, Politician

"If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had"

Steven Tyler, Musician

"Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart"

Jane Grey, Royalty

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence"

Denis Waitley, Writer

"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift"

Wernher von Braun, Scientist

"Elvis was a very generous person. He loved to give gifts to people, especially those he cared about"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"I think my lyrics are my real gift to music. Without them, I'm just playing a guitar"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences"

John Denver, Musician

"The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind"

Robert Laurent, Sculptor

"Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift"

Michael Milken, Criminal

"Having children is my greatest achievement. It was my saviour. It switched my focus from the outside to the inside. My children are gifts, they remind me of what's important"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter"

Soleil Moon Frye, Actress

"I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that"

John Denver, Musician

"I think if I have any kind of unique gift, it's more in the comedy area than it is in the dramatic area"

Susan Sullivan, Actress

"I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given"

Anthony Hamilton

"He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits"

Jack Kroll, Editor

"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite"

James Broughton, Director

"Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty"

Jerry Weller, Politician

"We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people"

George Lincoln Rockwell, Activist

"Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it"

Diane Kruger, Model

"Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good"

Andrew Taylor Still, Scientist

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