Gift Quotes

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

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.

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

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.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

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.

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.