37 Gifts Quotes

The people who send us fan mail written in blood say the nicest things, so it doesn't freak us out too much.

Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

We therefore need to know the gifts given us by God, so that we may use them, for by these we shall be saved.

All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

Forgive me, giver, if I destroy the gift. It is so nearly what would please me I cannot but perfect it.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

'Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.'

'It is quite unacceptable that a member of Dail Eireann and in particular a Cabinet Minister and Taoiseach, should be supported in his personal lifestyle by gifts made to him personally.' (Dail Eireann transcript, September 1997)

It was the time when lilies blow, And clouds are highest up in air. Lord Ronald brought a lily-white doe To give his cousin, Lady Clare.

Some nice young lady got me fuzzy socks. How I love the socks and their fuzziness. A thank you for my bday present to the girl I did not meet.

What else are you supposed to give hookers in hotel rooms? 'Yoghurt, anybody? I made some yoghurt this morning, would you like some? It's got Granola and everything. You sure? Go on, have a bit.'

Jeebus! Those are great things to receive! I'd be freakin' stoked to get a lovely juice box! Try getting a walnut. I got a damn walnut one time and it sucked. Totally. And I said, 'Hey, this damn walnut totally sucks!''

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

I bought her this handkerchief... and I didn't even know her size.

You are very lovely now and soon you will be beautiful. Ant not in an ordinary way. Youth is always beautiful, but you are like some creatures of fairy born to bring ill to mortals. Only trouble can follow such gifts

I want to thank you for so many gifts you gave with love and tenderness I want to thank you I want to thank you for your generosity the love and the honesty that you gave me

We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.

She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.

'Now! Dasher, now! Dancer, now! Prancer, and Vixen, 'On! Comet, on! Cupid, on! Dunder and Blixem; 'To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall! 'Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!'

The Gods sell when they give. / Glory is paid for with disgrace. / Poor are the happy, for they are / Just what passes.

Send some roses to Mrs Upjohn and put 'Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill.

Please accept from me this unpretentious bouquet of very early-blooming parentheses: (((()))).

And, afterward, when a child was naughty or disobedient, its mother would say: 'You must pray to the good Santa Claus for forgiveness. He does not like naughty children, and, unless you repent, he will bring you no more pretty toys.' But Santa Claus himself would not have approved this speech. He brought toys to the children because they were little and helpless, and because he loved them. He knew that the best of children were sometimes naughty, and that the naughty ones were often good. It is the way with children, the world over, and he would not have changed their natures had he possessed the power to do so.

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfully wise men - who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night.

Make songs for Death as you would sing to Love - But you will not assuage him. He alone Of all the gods will take no gifts from men.

Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.