Gift Quotes

3896 Gift quotes by 2331 unique authors

A wedding invitation is a gift subpoena. — Peter Sagal
I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they… — Heinrich Heine
Everyone has the perfect gift to give the world-and if each of us is freed up to give our unique gift, the world will be… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Don't make anybody a homemade gift. Unless you're really good, or it's going to be really practical. If it's a little thing you think is… — Amy Sedaris
Our Cosmic Habitat is certain to be widely quoted and widely read. It is beautifully written, using inspiring and stimulating analogies. While the book is… — John N. Bahcall
The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson
Well Stephanie, I'd like to thank you for giving me such a kind Christmas gift, but unfortunately I didn't get you any gifts. But then… — Chris Jericho
California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited so much natural… — Victor Davis Hanson
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a… — Yi-Fu Tuan
There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent,… — Louis Bromfield
Imagine how our lives might be if everyone had even a bit more of the Wisdom that comes from seeing clearly. Suppose people everywhere, simultaneously,… — Sylvia Boorstein
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. For the greatest things grow by God's… — Florence Nightingale
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is blocked, distorted, or… — Lyndon B. Johnson
If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are… — Margaret Mead
This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand. — Emmet Gowin
If I am lucky, something new and inexplicable often appears in front of my lens. I am always surprised by the mystery of how my… — Joyce Tenneson
The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at… — Carolyn Heilbrun
Whatever may be the sociological value of the legal fiction that 'all men are born free and equal,' there can be no doubt that...in its… — Earnest Hooton
You must bind up any wounds you give the earth and you must feed her to replace what you take from her. Every gift she… — Morgan Llywelyn
The most important element in human life is faith; if God were to take away all his blessings-health, physical fitness, wealth, intelligence-and leave me with… — Rose Kennedy
But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small… — Helena Rubinstein
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. — Homer
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his delight to conceal… — Stephen Mansfield
Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Leave out my name from the gift if it be a burden, but keep my song. — Rabindranath Tagore

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