Quotes About Gifts

If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape.

I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well.

Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

I have gotten tubes of Chapstick from every damn corner of the country.

Personally, I've always been a philanthropist. I've always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways.

A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you paid is how much you saved. The last thing we want to hear is how you talked the jeweler down on our new earrings.

One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gathering of Friends,' the master invitation list from Rock Hudson's memorial service. It's so great. Everyone's in it, with personal addresses all bound into a book. Someone else once gave me Ike Turner's will. I get great stuff.

Opening presents at midnight on Christmas Eve - midnight! As soon as it turns to Christmas Day, we're opening those gifts.

I don't think I'm known for my gifts - I'm known for my gall. I don't want to be just a famous person - I'm too old.

I told the kids the house is going to be our Christmas. We didn't want them to think Christmas is just about gifts you're going to receive, but it's about Christ coming to Earth.

If you become famous and you start making money, then people want to give you things. It's the exact opposite of how it's supposed to be.

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Everything that you want is not very important. Everything that was given to you without any want is very important.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

I wondered, what other gifts I got bottled up inside me? That question had started to gnaw on me some.

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

These are the gifts that last. Small, as easy as breathing in and out, as plain as bread, they sink beneath what we think we remember, what we think we know, but they remain.

What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual convictions?' My