Gift Quotes
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
Alison Jolly
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We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon The Beatles
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We have too long treated the natural world as an adversary rather than as a life-sustaining gift from the Almighty. If man has the genius to build, which he has, he must also have the ability and the responsibility to preserve.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
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Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.
Elmina Shepard Taylor
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The storyteller is one who comes bearing a great and lasting gift.
Edward Eggleston
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Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
Boyd K. Packer
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This is the most precious gift anyone has ever received. You gave me back a memory that I will cherish forever. You gave me something from my grandma I didn't know I had. And you kept it and it lef you back to mme. It gave me you'' I felt a wetness in my eyes and I blinked confused from the strange sensation. A small trickle of water rand down my cheek. I stared into the darkness as I held Pagan in my arms in amazement Death had just shed a tear.
Abbi Glines
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I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael Jackson
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Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
Eric Maisel
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I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.
Michael Jackson
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Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.
Seth Godin
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
Esther Williams
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Imagine, to be studying and then suddenly come out of school and come into a project and quickly realize that it is a project that works really well and that the people really like. It is like, "What a nice gift life has given me, no?"
Alfonso Herrera
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from The Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book.
Abraham Lincoln
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.
Sophocles
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I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.
Peter Wright
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Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’
Amby Burfoot
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I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
Joyce DiDonato
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Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.
Eunice Kathleen Waymon
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Here's a guy Richard Nixon who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
Harry Shearer
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To me, a lady is not frilly, flouncy, flippant, frivolous and fluff-brained, but she is gentle, she is gracious, she is godly and she is giving. You and I have the gift of femininity... the more womanly we are, the more manly men will be and the more God is glorified. Be women, be only women, be real women in obedience to God.
Elisabeth Elliot
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We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found — at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music.
Martin Luther