Gift Quotes - page 13

That's the goal, to survive your gift. (Itzhak Perlman)
Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you will master it. Cleverness is the shadow, whereas intelligence is the substance. -Doc. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
... besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift. View quote
David Carradine
I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. View quote
Michel Legrand
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle
I think real forgiveness is a gift someone has to earn, and I don't even have to worry about Kalona asking for my forgiveness unless he's worthy of even considering it, and I just don't see that happening. View quote
P. C. Cast
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man. View quote
Jake Owen
Fidelity is a gift not a requirement. View quote
Lilli Palmer
You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there. View quote
Hayden Panettiere
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give. (Franka Potente)
She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it. View quote
Robert Crais
I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift. View quote
Twyla Tharp
The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it. View quote
Dennis Weaver
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
I remember a decade ago at my first annual meeting in St. Louis. After my banquet remarks to a packed house, they presented me with a very special gift. It was a splendid hand-crafted musket. I admit I was overcome by the power of its simple symbolism. I looked at that musket and I thought of all of the lives given for that freedom. I thought of all of the lives saved with that freedom. It dawned on me that the doorway to all freedoms is framed by muskets. So I lifted that musket over my head for all to see. And as flashbulbs popped around the room, my heart and a few tears swelled up, and I uttered five unscripted words. When I did, that room exploded in sustained applause and hoots and shouts that seemed to last forever. ... So as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Gore: From my cold dead hands! View quote
Charlton Heston
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. View quote
Charlotte Ross
Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us. View quote
Maria Shriver
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. View quote
Esther Williams
Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building. View quote
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Anytime you have an opportunity as an actor to really grow along with your character, I think thats a real gift. (Alan Ritchson)
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution. View quote
Alexander Payne
I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift. View quote
Allyson Felix
The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. View quote
Amy Smart
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success. View quote
Angela Ahrendts