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Quotes About Gift

I don't say this because I want a gift from you. Rather, I want you to receive a reward for your kindness. —Philippians 4:17
~ Gary Chapman
Sometimes the best way to exchange love is to graciously receive a gift. — Jeanette Gardner Littleton —
~ Gary Chapman
My mother cranes her neck. Her ability to be fascinated by things is her best gift to me.
~ Gary Shteyngart
He knew that he had been born in a sick country, a country now intent on spreading its disease to others through the social media channels and under the cover of night--its true gift of the moment.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Alcohol is the gift of any narration, and any writer thrills to the thwop of a corkscrew being pulled.
~ Gary Shteyngart
Art takes nothing from the world; it is a gift and an exchange. It leaves the world nourished.
~ Gary Snyder
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Oh, tonight I gave you my soul and I am dead! Christine replied. Your soul is a beautiful thing, child, replied the grave man's voice, and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. The angels wept tonight.
~ Gaston Leroux
The man's voice spoke again: Are you very tired? Oh, to-night I gave you my soul and I am dead! Christine replied. Your soul is a beautiful thing, child, replied the grave man's voice, and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift. THE ANGELS WEPT TONIGHT.
~ Gaston Leroux
Your soul is a beautiful thing, child, replied the grave man's voice, and I thank you. No emperor ever received so fair a gift.
~ Gaston Leroux
She is wearing the ring again tonight; and you did not give it to her. She gave her soul again tonight and did not give it to you.
~ Gaston Leroux
when a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment. The only true gifts are such as you now receive.
~ Gene Wolfe
What good is this gift of speech, except that I can curse myself. Good mother of all the beasts, take it from me. I would be as I was, and shout wordless among the hills. Reason shows reason can only bring pain - how wise to forget and be happy again!
~ Gene Wolfe
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
~ George Bernard Shaw
I think the human race has squandered its gift, and I think this country has squandered its promise. I think people in America sold out very cheaply, for sneakers and cheeseburgers. And I don't think it's fixable
~ George Carlin
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
~ George Eliot
When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other.
~ George Howe Colt
The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.
~ Skrillex
I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.
~ Albert Hammond, Jr.
You were the one who gave me those boxers? I wondered where they came from, I wear those! Although I'm not a big fan of flannel, it gets a little hot down there, if you know what I mean.
~ Joel Madden
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.
~ Desmond Tutu
Writing is writing. It's an abiding, wonderful talent, craft, gift that stays with you your whole life. And you can go in different forms, and you can try them. Look at me: I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I'm just so grateful I had a wonderful surrogate who carried our two children. I have two amazing angels in my life that I love so much. They are such a gift and a blessing from God.
~ Camille Grammer
A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.
~ Stacey D'Erasmo