Giving Quotes

The gift from my Secret Santa wasn't anything special. That makes me sad. I bet you anything that Mary Elizabeth is my Secret Santa because only she would give me socks.

This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.

You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it.

Where there's no gardener, there's no garden.

Those who get the most out of life and those who give the most are those who make the choice to act.

Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.

Cynical is the name we give those we fear may be laughing at us.

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average.

It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

the only mortal sin is giving up.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

I always have a contract with a character. Even when he's unappealing. The contract is to give him his due. To tell his story. And to keep his secrets.

Any man will admit if need be that his sight is not good, or that he cannot swim or shoots badly with a rifle, but to touch upon his sense of humour is to give him mortal affront.

Basically, no one else gives me any opinions on lyrics. I don't ask for them. If they did, I would listen.

The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.

I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.

If I was given the choice between having the world back and having you, I wouldn't be able to give you up. Not to save five billion lives.

When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

The better the person you're with, the better you're going to be because they're giving you so much more.

The one thing that gives you faith is the fact that people can be apart physically but they can still have an emotional connection.

That's what gives people hope - that you can still love someone from afar and you can still have those feelings across an ocean.

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.

I'm somebody who deserves to be supported and encouraged to continue my work because I have a lot to give.

You must give before you can get.

What is the meaning of life? Life has the meaning that you give it.

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

It just happens in life, where you resonate with a particular artist. Or it can be a kind of food or a fashion - you discover it and it gives you a whole new lease on life.

I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

Hopefully it'll give us a bit of luck on the night, but I'm not really a superstitious person.

Violence can behave like a disease. That insight gives a different frame of reference that is designed to take the judgment out of it, to take the good-versus-bad-people view out of it.

I'm not someone who gives prescriptives at the end of my films.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

When you sleep I will creep Into your thoughts Like a bad debt That you can't pay Take the easy way and give in!

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it back.