Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.
Terrence Howard

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
James Broughton

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.
Peter Garrett

Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing.
Charles Lamb

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

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie P. Snow

Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.
Erma Bombeck

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
Robert Rainy

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.
Medgar Evers

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Rod McKuen

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.
Sophocles

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
John Owen

The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind.
Robert Laurent