Gift Quotes

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.

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.

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

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.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

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

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.