Gift Quotes - page 4

We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess - their very lives. (Cesar Chavez)
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. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Every woman is the gift of a world to me. View quote
Heinrich Heine
The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift. View quote
William Wordsworth
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. View quote
William Wordsworth
We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The greatest gift is the 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. View quote
Elizabeth Hardwick
We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness, native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory and where a pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other end. View quote
Lewis Mumford
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. View quote
Robert Collier
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. View quote
Robertson Davies
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. (Jim Rohn)
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. View quote
Winston Churchill
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This I pray at your liturgy After so many tormented days, So that the stormcloud over darkened Russia Might become a cloud of glorious rays. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. View quote
Nikola Tesla
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. View quote
Voltaire
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is to me the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. View quote
Prem Rawat
Freedom is such a gift. View quote
Ryan Gosling
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. View quote
Bradley Whitford
Imagination is a gift given to us from God and each one of us use it differently. (Brian Jacques)
A dog is the greatest gift a parent can give a child. OK, a good education, then a dog. View quote
John Grogan
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way, when they came, the offered themselves as a gift. View quote
Donna Jo Napoli
A sense of identity is the gift of love, and only love can give it. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at! View quote
Isabelle Huppert