Gift Quotes

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

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.

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.

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

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.

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.