Quotes with gifts

Quotes 41 till 58 of 58.

  • Carrie Snow Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
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  • Burton Hillis The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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  • Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Rod Mckeun The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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  • Sophocles The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Denis Waitley The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Katharine Hepburn The most minor 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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  • May Sarton There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
    May Sarton
    American poet, novelist, pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton (1912 - 1995)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carolyn Wells Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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  • Sandi To receive gifts is to lose freedom.
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  • Virgil Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.
    Virgil
    Roman poet (70 - 19)
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  • Mark Twain 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.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bill Cosby What is it about grandparents that is so lovely? I'd like to say that grandparents are God's gifts to children. And if they can but see, hear and feel what these people have to give, they can mature at a fast rate.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • John Webster When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
    John Webster
    English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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  • Anzia Yezierska Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Thomas Fuller Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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