Gift Quotes
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When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!
Paul Stanley Kiss
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I think it was a gift. I am very pleased.
Sasha Cohen
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My furniture, boxes, and turnings are simple, practical designs for everyday use. I love the grain and beauty of wood. Each piece of lumber is a work of art, after all, and I'd like to honor that gift and pass it on for someone else to appreciate.
Steve Miller The Steve Miller Band
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Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
Alphonsus Liguori
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Sure, I got lost, which is an actor's worst nightmare. But it is a gift as well, because great things come out of being lost and unsure, especially if you have a controlling side or a perfectionist side, which plenty of us do.
Rachel McAdams
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
Natalie Massenet
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I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
Margaret Keane
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The gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.
Daniel Mazia
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I’m really proud of my solo album but I don’t feel like I’m a natural singer. I wasn’t born with a great voice. You can learn to sing in tune, but you can’t learn to have a great voice. That’s a gift you’re born with.
James Stevenson
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Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
Ban Ki-moon
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The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
Lisa Unger
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I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
Elia Kazan
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Sign language is the noblest gift God has given to deaf people.
George Veditz
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Non-cooperation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Authentic stardom ... is a gift which, if it is to have any permanent significance, must be bestowed by a public rather than a manager.
Katharine Cornell
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Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.
Bernie Siegel
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I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.
Sally Mann
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the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
Alice B. Toklas
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If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.
Diogenes
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Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.
Rumi
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I know that the gift that God gave me isn't gonna just wither up and die unless I let it die, so it's a matter of me having the faith that it's gonna come out. Whether or not the public's gonna like it is another story. But I think as long as I keep changing and sticking to what I really love - and the same goes for Steven and the other guys in the band - then people are gonna like it.
Joe Perry Aerosmith
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I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.
Mary Calderone
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono U2