Gift Quotes

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.

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

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

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.

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.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.

I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them.

I feel like it's important to use this gift God gave me, my life and my career to do something to make the world a better place. It's an easy thing for me to do.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.