Great Gifts Quotes - Page 2

• Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

  John Lithgow

  Book, Share, Something You Love

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• It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, People, Tragedy

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• If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

  Cindy Crawford

  People, Giving, Would Be

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• When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a great gift. But you also know this, for your work, for your passion, every day is a rededication. Painters, dancers, actors, writers, filmmakers. It's the same for all of you, all of us. Every step is a first step. Every brush stroke is a test. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. So, let the learning continue.

  Martin Scorsese

  Passion, School, Blow

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• Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

  Ellen Bass

  Email, Heard, Listeners

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• For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

  Jennifer Lynch

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Views, People, Interesting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

  Willa Cather

  Giving, Noble, Achieve

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

  John Henry Newman

  Perseverance, Taken, Humble

  John Henry Newman (1907). “Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman”, Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton, Mifflin [c1907]

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• It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family, your own class, your own race, your own neighborhood - that is one of the great gifts that art affords.

  Dana Gioia

  Art, Race, Class

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• The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.

  Corliss Lamont

  Wise, Honesty, Men

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• Let us thank God for having called us to His holy faith. It is a great gift, and the number of those who thank God for it is small.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Numbers, Thank God, Holy

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• Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

  Ken Burns

  Memories, Powerful, Home

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• Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

  Barbara Sher

  Greatness, Love Is, Facts

  Barbara Sher (2013). “It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: HOW TO CREATE YOUR SECOND LIFE AT ANY AGE”, p.354, Dell

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• I'm glad that, despite everything, I was able to get work done and finish something. I never finish anything. So just being able to finish record and to make music is a great gift.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Done, Records, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

  Dani Shapiro

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

  Norman Lock

  Fiction, Reader

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.

  Zicheng Hong

  Gratitude, Sacrifice, Self

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• The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

  James A. Michener

  Men, Battle, Belonging

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• Health is God's great gift, and we must spend it entirely for Him. Our eyes should see only for God, our feet walk only for Him, our hands labor for Him alone; in short, our entire body should serve God while we still have the time. Then, when He shall take our health and we shall near our last day, our conscience will not reproach us for having misused it.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

  Teena Marie

  Song, Blessing, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.

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• To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Growing Up, Adults, Stories

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• For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Ocean, Weather, Air

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• This is a key point which the secularists are missing: they think that stressing God's mercy means that sins are no longer sins. On the contrary, God's mercy is a great gift of grace precisely because sins are sins and they call for repentance and forgiveness.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Stress, Mean, Thinking

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• It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

  Todd Solondz

  Littles, Able, Kind

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