Books Gifts Quotes

#1. Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.

Michael Ignatieff

#2. Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk. Take the phone off the hook. Work regular hours.

Jane Kenyon

#3. I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Dean Koontz

#4. Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Well, the world has a million writers. One would think, then, that good thought would be as familiar as air and water, and the gifts of each new hour would exclude the last. Yet we can count all our good books; nay, I remember any beautiful verse for twenty years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Post kept bound books with typed lists of gifts sent and received ... jeweler Harry Winston sent her a box of cheese

Estella M. Chung

#7. Books have formed the soul of me. I know that spiritual formation is of God, but I also know - mainly because I learned it from books - that there are other kinds of formation, too, everyday gifts, and that God uses the things of this earth to teach us and shape us, and to help us find truth

Karen Swallow Prior

#8. Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.

Judy Blume

#9. There were others, such as Jack London,who offered their readers such a respite from the miserable horror of existence that their books were like gifts from the gods. (Character of Tristan Sadler in "the Absolutist")

John Boyne

#10. I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.

Dean Bakopoulos

#11. For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.

Colleen Mariotti

#12. Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Alec Baldwin

#13. Books are the best messages and gifts.

Disha

#14. I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free!

Anonymous

#15. Priceless gifts:
The gift of love.
The gift of parent.
The gift of husband
The gift of wife
The gift of children
The gift of prayer.
The gift of family.
The gift of relatives.
The gift of friends.
The gift of in-laws.
The gift of books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

Michael Dirda

#17. I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.

Monica Ali

#18. Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

Neil Gaiman

#19. In life your rewards come from the gifts you give to others.

Ken Donaldson

#20. A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

#21. Dave put a lot of thought into picking out the books his dad would like least.

Theric Jepson

#22. When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

#23. The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#24. It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

Hosea Ballou

#25. Everybody in the world ought to care for books, and if there are some who do not, why that is a perfectly convincing reason why books ought to be given to them, to be a rebuke to them and, perchance, to rescue them from the error of their ways.

Willis Johnson

#26. If you see our best seller list, most of them are books that are given as gifts. They are books you give to flatter somebody.

John Gimlette

#27. In comic books, people with gifts became superheroes; in real life they became outcasts.

Eoin Colfer

#28. Gifts that are most appreciated are often associated with the country, or even better, the specific location you are from. These kinds of gifts may include coffee table picture books of your city or national parks, or mugs, t-shirts, paperweights, and so on that display your company or school logo.

Matthew B. Christensen

#29. The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.

Sue Monk Kidd

#30. I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Meg Cabot

#31. Of all the gifts you can get, friends and family are the best!

Jan Britland

#32. She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts.

Pat Conroy

#33. When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

Kajol