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Quotes About Gift

Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Living long is a gift denied to many, and so it comes with a responsibility to make the most of it. At very least to appreciate it. People gripe about growing older—their aches and pains, how much harder everything is—as if they had forgotten that the alternative is dying young." She picked up her fork
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Don't ever say that to me again. It was not nothing. You did an incredible thing for your father. And you always have that. It's part of who you are now. You stepped up to it, and now you're up on a higher level than you were before. You gave the man a gift. The fact that he doesn't know how to value it doesn't mean it wasn't a great gift. It just means he has lousy taste in presents.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
looking back, every moment feels equally important. Now the most tedious and uneventful day I ever spent feels like a gift. Now I'm holding those moments like a heaping double handful of pearls, and at the same time I'm admiring their beauty, I have to open my hands and let them pour through.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Since the tendency to create an image of God seems to exist within young children whether or not they have religious influences in their home, I would say that this tendency is a creation gift from the Creator God.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
Justice is getting what you deserve. Mercy is not getting what you deserve. And grace is getting what you absolutely don't deserve. ...... benign good will. unprovoked compassion. the unearnable gift
~ Cathleen Falsani
Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.
~ Cathleen Falsani
What would Jesus do with this gift of writing, this God-given love of writing? What would He write?
~ Cathy Gohlke
Joy is the gift of God, and you are His child. He loves you so. He rejoices over you with singing!
~ Cathy Gohlke
the heart of a prophet is not his own to bestow.
~ Geraldine Brooks
I am soft sift 25 In an hourglass — at the wall Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift, And it crowds and it combs to the fall; I steady as a water in a well, to a poise, to a pane, But roped with, always, all the way down from the tall 30 Fells or flanks of the voel, a vein Of the gospel proffer, a pressure, a principle, Christ's gift.
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
Into this threefold prayer the praying woman includes the mysteries of her own motherhood, that through the mystery of the Mother of all mothers they may be uplifted. The earthly mother also has received her child from God; as his gift she has carried it and given it birth. Like Mary, she has presented it to God in the temple, and like her she has found it again in the temple.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
Every glorious Gift comes from God. It is meant to change lives and lift His name on high.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
~ Gilda
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
~ Gilda Radner
New insights from being present are a gift.
~ Gina Greenlee
As a baby, you saw reality clearly; however, you had no way of organizing and understanding what you saw. As you developed, language gave you a way of organizing the massive amounts of data that your senses delivered to your brain. Language also gave you a way to communicate with others. It allowed you to form relationships, survive, and carry out tasks in the world. What a miracle and gift language is!
~ Gina Lake
Lei è l'amore...Quando lo trovi, da qualunque parti arrivi, accettalo come un dono e tienilo ben stretto...ha la capacità di farti sentire pieno di energia senza lasciarti la possibilità di capire quanto te ne stia in realtà togliendo.
~ Giorgio Faletti
The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food.
~ Glenn Doman
Ain't nothing to be shamed of. Having a baby is the most natural thing there is. The Good Book call children a gift from the Lord. And there ain't no place in that Bible of His that say babies is sinful. The sin is the fornicatin', and that's over and done with. God done forgave you of that a long time ago, and what's going on in your belly now ain't nothin' to hang your head about--you remember that.
~ Gloria Naylor
In this way, Harvard Law School gives me a big gift: I worry less about hostile responses. Ultimately, they educate an audience. As the great Flo Kennedy will suggest later when we begin to speak together, "Just pause, let the audience absorb the hostility, then say, 'I didn't pay him to say that.'
~ Gloria Steinem
He has given us all the gift of spontaneity—and hope.
~ Gloria Steinem
Don Corleone Someday - and that day may never come - I'll call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this justice as gift on my daughter's wedding day.
~ Godfather, The
Aus "Zueignung" Ich kenne dich, ich kenne deine Schwächen, Ich weiß, was Gutes in dir lebt und glimmt! – So sagte sie, ich hör sie ewig sprechen – Empfange hier, was ich dir lang bestimmt; Dem Glücklichen kann es an nichts gebrechen, Der dies Geschenk mit stiller Seele nimmt: Aus Morgenduft gewebt und Sonnenklarheit, Der Dichtung Schleier aus der Hand der Wahrheit.
~ Goethe