Quotes About Gift

How do you give someone a piece of sky?

On her birthday, it was she who gave a gift - to me. It makes me understand that the best standover man I've ever known is not a man at all...

How do you give someone a piece of sky? Memorize it. Then write it down for him.

No one had ever given her music before.

Ser bueno en algo era interesante.

Cómo le regalas a alguien un pedazo de cielo? A finales de febrero, se detuvo en medio de Münchenstrasse y se quedó mirando una enorme nube que asomaba tras las colinas como un monstruo blanco.

In mid-February, when she turned ten, Liesel was given a used doll that had a missing leg and yellow hair. "It was the best we could do," Papa apologized. "What are you talking about? She's lucky to have that much," Mama corrected him.

MÄ›la narozeniny, ale dárek dala ona mÄ›.

What a gift. This page is briefly stained by my tears of gratitude. Novelists don't usually have it so good, do they, when something real happens (something unified, dramatic and pretty saleable), and they just write it down?

Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it

Beauty is a fateful gift of the essence of truth, and here truth means the disclosure of what keeps itself concealed. The beautiful is not what pleases, but what falls within that fateful gift of truth which comes to be when that which is eternally non-apparent and therefore invisible attains its most radiantly apparent appearance.

Babies, we are told, are the latest news from heaven.

writing is a gift. Offering someone the chance to read your writing is akin to giving a bit of your soul to someone else.

Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.

Now was the time for now. Now was one of those rare and precious moments with which one was gifted from time to time. That was all it was. A moment. But it was one to be enjoyed to the full while it lasted and treasured for a lifetime after it was over.

I made a gift for you, Good Proctor. I had to sit long hours in a chair, and passed the time with sewing. - Mary Warren

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Therefore, without doubt, the happiest destiny on earth is to have the rare gift of a rich individuality, and, more especially to be possessed of a good endowment of intellect; this is the happiest destiny, though it may not be, after all, a very brilliant one.

Survival is the greatest gift of love

The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.

No gift is worth a damn, unless its the most precious thing you've got.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Dryly he noted that some individuals enjoyed every political gift except that of discretion.)