Gave Quotes
5099 Gave quotes by 3288 unique authors
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Divine Nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.
— Marcus Terentius Varro
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He gave me a copy of The Declaration of Independence, then he got a tattoo that says Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death. I…
— Randy Glasbergen
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I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.
— Tommy Cooper
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In making our decisions, we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave…
— Alexander MacLaren
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As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something Blew.'
— Joan Rivers
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With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.
— Sally Jessy Raphael
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth…
— John Thorn
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But a book suggests conversation: one person is speaking to another, and audible sound is, or should be, natural to that exchange. So I read…
— Teju Cole
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If a rabbit gave advice and the advice wasn't accepted, he immediately forgot it, and so did everyone else.
— Richard Adams
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The telephone ringing gave me a dreadful start. I have never got used to this machine, the way it crouches so malevolently, ready to start…
— John Banville
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I have seen Americans making great and sincere sacrifices for the key common good and a hundred times I have noticed that, when needs be,…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying…
— Samuel Adams
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The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Franklin's illness...gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like an author creates…
— Richard Avedon
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I liked playing in Chicago, and I gave them everything I had, but I knew in my heart I was a Red Wing.
— Ted Lindsay
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Call upon me in the Day of Trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me...Wait on the Lord, and be of good Cheer,…
— Daniel Defoe
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The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of…
— Thomas Gray
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Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case.…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill a Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! Sure it…
— Homer
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I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
— Unknown Author
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When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he [Prometheus] gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see…
— Unknown Author
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Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had…
— Roger Federer
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but…
— Ralph Ellison
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