Quotes of: Gave Keyword

The door opens with a rusted jingle, and an animatronic Santa insults my moral virtue three times. Ho, ho, ho.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

I'm not weeping for what I've lost ... I'm just grateful to the Lord, grateful that he gave me so much. ... Praise the Almighty God for what he gave me, for such love and such joy.

Lovelier Than Daylight

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck.

Shaquille O'Neal

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out.

Matthew Thomas

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared...

Neil Sheehan

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Dorothy Allison

Well, Steve Vai joined my dad's band right around the time when I actually started playing guitar. So he gave me a couple of lessons on fundamentals, and gave me some scales and practice things to work on. But I pretty much learned everything by ear.

Dweezil Zappa

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because som...

Luke Scott

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other as...

Selma Blair

They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.

Clint Eastwood

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

Eric Clapton

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

Leon Spinks

A cow gave birth to a fire; she wanted to lick it, but it burned; she wanted to leave it, but she could not because it was her own child.

Ethiopian

Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

Death in the Afternoon

Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Many people are so poor that the only thing they have is money. Cultivate your spiritual growth.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

Erase self-doubt by working to build your strengths instead of focusing on your weaknesses.

Advice My Parents Gave Me: and Other Lessons I Learned from My Mistakes

I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial.

My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories

Without boxing, because of my neighborhoods, who knows what would have happened to me. It was always about following the leader. And I definitely was not a leader. Boxing gave me discipline; a sense of self. It made me more outspoken. It gave me more...

Sugar Ray Leonard

Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it's not only because I served, okay. It's because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a hea...

Si Robertson