Quotes About Gifts

My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.

I love flowers, even on normal days, so they are a must-have on Valentine's. Ditto for chocolates.

When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?

When I was in the seventh grade, I had a girlfriend. I used to save up some of my pocket money to get her gifts on Valentine's Day.

Valentine's day has been reduced to a marketing gimmick. Buying diamonds for your beloved has no appeal for me.

God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.

I'm not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.

Some gifts of friendship cannot be earned. They exist, beyond price, and we cannot hope to match up to them.

The man's got more money than God, and he sends you a bag of coffee?

gifts — that strange word, a signifier meaning disappointment you can hold in your hands.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

Why work? The gods are there to lavish upon the faithful the good gifts of nature.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

Can you imagine getting a gun for a secret Santa? That is especially not a good idea if you work in a post office.

As you continue the work of acknowledging and claiming the gifts of your past and standing in the power of your present, you are freeing up enormous reserves of creative energy.

The best work flows from us effortlessly. Allow the gifts of spirit to come to you.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

God gave me such great abilities, and sometimes that's a strength and sometimes it's not a strength. It's just the way it is.

We all have different strengths, different gifts.

One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored.

Everybody loves to receive gifts and free goodies, and often parents are loath to look out for hidden strings attached to corporate freebies.

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Oprah's such a wonderful spirit; she's been given a lot of gifts in her life, and she gives them back.

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.