Gift Quotes

"I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world"

Anthony Braxton, Musician

"I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer"

James Galway, Musician

"The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped"

John Doolittle, Politician

"Most analysts would agree that if all the undocumented immigrants in California were deported in one day, our state would experience a severe economic downturn. This does not even consider the many cultural and spiritual gifts these immigrants bring to our state and nation"

Roger Mahony, Clergyman

"The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying"

Kelly Preston, Actress

"This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more"

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Politician

"The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'"

Jensen Ackles, Actor

"John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it"

Susan Sullivan, Actress

"I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing"

Kristin Chenoweth, Actress

"Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule"

Minnie Driver, Actress

"That's the goal, to survive your gift"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation"

Ernie Fletcher, Politician

"I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

"I think all music is a gift from God"

Pharrell Williams, Musician

"Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God"

Felix Mendelssohn, Composer

"Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game"

Charlotte Ross, Actress

"Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"Honestly, I've been very blessed. Yes, I am cursed with this gift"

Wilmer Valderrama, Actor

"It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training"

Michael East, Athlete

"Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens"

Tom Ridge, Politician

"Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have"

Jon Voight, Actor

"Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself"

Marsha Norman, Dramatist

"Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it"

Edgar Lee Masters, Poet

"One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female"

Barbara Smith, Activist

"You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way"

Sarah Brightman, Musician

"I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church"

Giles Gilbert Scott, Architect

"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself"

Suzanne Somers, Actress

"I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift"

Septima Clark

"If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management"

Cheryl Crawford, Actress

"All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted"

Janet Erskine Stuart, Poet

"The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi"

Medgar Evers, Activist

"The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within"

Yehudi Menuhin, Musician

"The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice"

Susan Chira, Journalist

"Such a gift might be easily taken back again"

Veronica Franco, Poet

"There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life"

Sean Astin, Actor

"God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible"

James Clavell, Novelist

"When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself"

Kathryn Stockett, Novelist

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