#gift

No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#before #blaze #crest #every #flowers

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

#gift #honours #important #lacking #lavished

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service. ↗

— Sean Hannity

#best #early #everything #excessive #get

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#consoles #distracts #excites #experience #gift

Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts. ↗

— Mariska Hargitay

#clearly #gifts #happen #life #our

Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon. ↗

— Saad Hariri

#gift #huge #lebanon #those #violence

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#alone #always #attainment #envied #genius

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#after #could #four #gifts #minor

To those supporters who were told that I abandoned them, that is untrue. I abandoned greed, corruption, and compromise, never you, and never the artistic gifts and abilities that sustained me. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#artistic #compromise #corruption #gifts #greed

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. ↗

— Lauryn Hill

#being #black #confront #culture #demonic