For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
Billy Joel

We were always able to sing and blend well together; that's our gift. But aside from that, we're really two different guys.
Paul Simon

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean de la Bruyere

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas Kempis

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.
Aretha Franklin

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo

Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth.
Knut Hamsun

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.
Cecilia Bartoli

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.
Christopher Morley

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Edward Gibbon

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
Boris Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Boris Pasternak

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.
Sugar Ray Leonard

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.
David Carradine

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
Zac Efron

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
Laura Ingalls Wilder

That's the goal, to survive your gift.
Itzhak Perlman

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.
Gustav Mahler