Gift Quotes

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

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

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

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.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

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

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

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

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.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

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.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

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

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

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.