Gift Quotes

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.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

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.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

Peace is our gift to each other.

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.