Quotes with gifts

  • Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
  • We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.
  • One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.

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  • Plato All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bruce Cockburn 'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Karl Kraus Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Noam Chomsky Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Marcel Proust Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Benjamin Haydon Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Walter Benjamin Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Ovid Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Adam Clarke However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Thornton Wilder I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Les Brown I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bryce Courtenay I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Bai Ling I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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