Quotes About Gift

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

I've been an activist since my late teens. I take this very seriously and try to use the gift that's been given to me - access to the media - as positively as I can.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

We've been given this great gift, this huge canvas of these beautiful books by George Martin, and the idea of telling this whole epic through to the end is incredibly compelling.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

She asked me why I always had something flip to say. I said that I didn't know, but having been blessed with the gift, I felt obliged to use it.

Every second we have with these fine animals is a blessing. No creature, human or otherwise, will love you with such devotion, or trust you so fully. Remember this, Officer James. These dogs will lay their precious hearts bare to you, and hold back no part for themselves. Can anyone else in your pathetic excuse for a life say the same? Such trust is a gift from God Almighty above, so best you be worthy.

learn just one thing from his death, if you learn that life is fragile at any age, and that every day is a gift. His death won't be for nothing if you learn to celebrate each morning that you wake, take a breath, and realize you're still alive and the day is filled with endless potential.

Usted tiene el regalo. Usted es un curandero.

God's program is grace, not scorekeeping; free gift, not reward and punishment in this world.

We are saved gratis, by grace. We do nothing and we deserve nothing; it is all, absolutely and without qualification, one huge, hilarious gift.

Thanks for the balloon donkey. Perfect timing. My old one's nearly deflated. She received an answer sixty seconds later. Great. I was worried it was so obvious, everybody would've got you one. See you at 5. Light-hearted now, Robin drank tea, ate her toast and returned downstairs to open her family's presents.

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God. – Ephesians 2:8

A friend is a present you give yourself.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

To me it's as if the day has been tossed into my lap by a benevolent god who likes to gives things to good-for-nothings.

I pledge to love Jesus more than anything or anyone. And you are next in line, God's remarkable gift to me. I promise to protect, honor, and cherish you for the rest of our lives.

The gift that isn't big enough to make a mark, but is too big to leave the possessor in peace. And so they can't be content to be Sunday painters, or poets who write for a few friends, or composers whose handful of delicate little settings of Emily Dickinson can't find a singer. It's a special sort of hell.

It was plain that he had had a lot of training, for nobody ever sang so by the light of Nature.

Galanna's gift, it was dryly said, was to be impossible to please.

A deveni egoist presupune s? recunoÅŸti c? valoarea ta e mare, c? aptitudinile tale sunt demne de a fi exprimate, c? împlinirea fiinÅ£ei tale este tot atât de important? ca a oric?rei alte persoane ÅŸi c? tot ce ai mai bun este cel mai grozav dar pe care-l poÅ£i oferi lumii ÅŸi, mai ales, celor dragi.

The sight of an achievement is the greatest gift a human being could offer others. —AYN RAND