Books make great gifts
Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking. Emeril Lagasse
Great Gifts
Garrison Keillor read several
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on ‘The Writer’s Almanac’ and I’ve heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That’s one of the great gifts of email. Ellen Bass
it is through the
it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. Elizabeth Janeway
If you know someone
If you know someone who has lost a child, and you’re afraid to mention them because you think you might make them sad by reminding them that they died-you’re not reminding them. They didn’t forget they died. What you’re reminding them of is that you remembered that they lived, and that is a great gift. … Read more
Well, anyway, her death
Well, anyway, her death changed our lives for the better, because it brought a kind of awareness, a specific sense of purpose and appreciation we hadn’t had before. Would I trade that in order to have her back? In a fraction of a millisecond. But I won’t ever have her back. So I have taken … Read more
The one great gift
The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them? Edward Abbey
I don\\’t know if
I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate. Edmund Hillary
Man is tormented by
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Whatever you do with
Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single … Read more
Writing gave me a
Writing gave me a second chance – not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift. Doris McCarthy