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Quotes About Gift

Ik ben echt blij," zei Knorretje tevreden, "dat ik je iets heb gegeven om in een handig potje te bewaren.
~ A.A. Milne
The best gift we can give other people is our whole selves in truth. By doing so we give them a true and accurate mirror that allows them to see themselves. We also give ourselves the best opportunity to grow.
~ A.C. Ping
It is no gift I tender, A loan is all I can; But do not scorn the lender; Man gets no more from man. Oh, mortal man may borrow What mortal man can lend; And 'twill not end to-morrow, Though sure enough 'twill end. If death and time are stronger, A love may yet be strong; The world will last for longer, But this will last for long.
~ A.E. Housman
All exchange stimulates productive activity, whether exchange by gift, gambling, barter, or money transaction.
~ Aaron C. Brown
Ringrazio Dio per avere donato alla mia generazione la sindrome da deficit d'attenzione.
~ Aaron Karo
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
~ Aaron Neville
He gives wisdom to whoever He wills and he who has been given wisdom has been given great good. But
~ Abdalhaqq Bewley
Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.
~ Abdul Kalam
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
~ Aberjhani
Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
~ Abraham Verghese
When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of morning.
~ Abraham Verghese
To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.
~ Abraham Verghese
The uneventful day is a precious gift.
~ Abraham Verghese
Another day in paradise" was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
~ Abraham Verghese
Now I understood what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
~ Abraham Verghese
Life comes from God and life is precious precisely because it is brief. God's gift is time. However much or however little one has of it, it comes from him.
~ Abraham Verghese
Big Ammachi asks Baby Mol the question, the one she has asked every night for over a decade now, a question that counts on Baby Mol's gift of prophecy.
~ Abraham Verghese
For twenty-eight years of Baby Mol's life, the sun has never failed to come up, yet every morning she's ecstatic at its return. To see the miraculous in the ordinary is a more precious gift than prophecy.
~ Abraham Verghese
what I have done is risked everything for that hour, that hour in the black night, where one flashing light looks like love, I have pulled over my body's car and let myself believe that the dance was only for me, that this gift of a breathing one-who-wants was always a gift, was the only sign worth stopping for, that the neon glow was a real star, gleaming in its dying, like us all, like us all.
~ Ada Limón
The profound gift of Christmas is our salvation and forgiveness. The babe born in Bethlehem would give his life to save us from our sin.
~ Adam Hamilton
day; I sniff the air and can almost smell summer. I love spring, not in its own right, but because it's the predecessor to summer, my actual favourite season. I have learnt that anticipation is genuinely a gift. Hot days slow my blood and heal my bones.
~ Adele Parks
I often think of life as a deposit of time. We are each allocated so many years, just like a fixed sum in a bank. When twenty-four hours have passed I have spent one more day. I read in the People's Daily that the average life expectancy for a Chinese woman is seventy-two. I am already seventy-four years old. I spent all my deposits two years ago and am on bonus time. Every day is already a gift. What is there to complain of?
~ Adeline Yen Mah
I think poetry is a shared thing, a gift for both the writer and the reader. If we caretake that gift to the best of our abilities, we create an experience that is simultaneously personal and collective."- Adrian Matejka
~ Adrian Matejka
And it conferred power. The presentee was placed under an obligation to the presenter, and once she had been presented she magically metamorphosed into a presenter herself, able to pass on the gift to others in some curious apostolic succession.
~ Adrian Tinniswood