Gift Quotes - page 55

LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the goose without it that bird would be unable to supply us with the Strasbourg 'pate'. (Ambrose Bierce)
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of tears. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
FOLLY, n. That 'gift and faculty divine' whose creative and controlling energy inspires Man's mind, guides his actions and adorns his life. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My mother's songs are really turning out to be masterpieces. I have inherited this incredible legacy and am so fortunate to bathe in her sensibilities. It is tinged with tragedy. I'd much rather she was here in person, but there is still a positive force to come out of her death and that is having the gift of music that she gave. View quote
Rufus Wainwright
Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you. View quote
Ryan Reynolds
I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. (Carl Sandburg)
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. View quote
Maya Angelou
Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his. View quote
Maya Angelou
life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy. View quote
Maya Angelou
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. View quote
Maya Angelou
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence -- neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish -- it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe. View quote
Maya Angelou
When we cast our bread upon the waters, we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from that grantor's gift. View quote
Maya Angelou
That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.' View quote
Maya Angelou
My remorse is not for having seized the weapon and struck the blow, it is that I owe to him - to him - that infamous good service which he did me - that I cannot to the present hour shake from me the horrible gift I have received from that man. View quote
Paul Bourget
An only child alone and wild A cabinet maker's son. His hands were meant for different work And his heart was known to none -- He left his home and went his lone and solitary way And he gave to me a gift I know I never can repay. View quote
Dan Fogelberg
With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. (Catherine Doherty)
I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself. View quote
Mae West
Our feeling about every obligation depends in each case upon the spirit in which the benefit is conferred; we weigh not the bulk of the gift, but the quality of the good-will which prompted it. View quote
Seneca
If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift. View quote
Seneca
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. View quote
Seneca