Top 100 Gifford Quotes
#1. One time Gifford had asked Mona: "What's the difference between men and women?" Mona had said: "Men don't know what can happen. They're happy. But women know everything that can happen. They worry all the time.
Anne Rice
#2. work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948
Larry Niven
#3. Gifford presented the house to Bonaguidi as a series of 'telescopic' spaces in the landscape, and his inspiration hints at the atmosphere in the Pines at this time. A telescope is a device often used for spying: it elongates when engaged in order to capture objects in its gaze.
Christopher Bascom Rawlins
#4. But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford
Maggie Brendan
#5. They were having sex on Gifford's desk, if you must know."
Lucas's eyes glinted. "His desk, huh?"
"Yes." Amaryllis raised her chin, the better to look down her nose at him. "I would have thought it would have been extremely uncomfo rtable, but they appeared to enjoy it.
Jayne Castle
#6. You make Gifford Industries sound like some sort of two-bit Mafia-owned New Jersey garbage-hauling company." I thought of a few rejoinders - I'm just wired that way - but I held my tongue.
Joseph Finder
#7. Gifford Ulrich didn't know the distance from despair to hope, but he knew hope didn't sleep in alleys.
Dan Groat
#8. We'd fight so much less if everyone would just sit down and read. Gifford's
Cynthia Hand
#10. She choked on a sob.
She wouldn't cry. She wouldn't. She refused to cry about Gifford.
But then she did. She was a sixteen-year-old girl, after all, and sometimes a sixteen-year-old girl needs to throw herself into a pillow and let the tears come as they may.
Cynthia Hand
#11. I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'
Kathie Lee Gifford
#12. For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#13. Ultimately we're all faced with the same things and that's what brings us together. It's just human nature to be terrified and that doesn't necessarily manifest itself in completely different ways.
Cassidy Erin Gifford
#14. When I was almost 13 I was ripe for religion. I was actually just plain ripe.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#16. My daddy. . . . . used to say, 'Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.' He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world's standards, but whose life is it anyway?
Kathie Lee Gifford
#17. What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#18. Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.
Gifford Pinchot
#21. Shall I compare thee to a barrel of apples?
Though art more hairy, but sweeter inside.
Rough winds couldn't keep me from taking you to chapel,
Where finally a horse could take a bride ...
Cynthia Hand
#22. I think sometimes the very reason we go through something is so that we can be empathetic with another person later on.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#23. I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.
Frank Gifford
#24. We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.
Frank Gifford
#25. Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.
Gifford Pinchot
#26. I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#29. I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a watch in his hand and closed the interview by saying, 'Your ten minutes is now up.'
Grace Gifford
#30. We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#31. Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
#33. The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.
Gifford Pinchot
#34. A vision is not a vision unless it says yes to some ideas and no to others, inspires people and is a reason to get out of bed in the morning and come to work.
Gifford Pinchot
#36. I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#37. Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.
Gifford Pinchot
#38. I'm not a fan of religion. Religion ties people up and binds them and puts them back in chains but faith - true relationship - releases us to be all what God ever intended us to be. That's what I'm interested in.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#39. I think when you've gone through a betrayal in life then when somebody's been betrayed you can talk to the person about it. If your husband's been unfaithful to you, you know what that's like, you know how that feels. You can share true empathy with someone.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#41. But the Bible says, even though we may blow it every day,
God's mercy is fresh for us every morning.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#42. It's not like I want to put myself on a high horse, but I just don't curse a lot.
Cassidy Erin Gifford
#43. To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#44. The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
Gifford Pinchot
#45. Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.
Frank Gifford
#46. If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target.
Gifford Pinchot
#47. There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#48. As he crept down the stairs, it occurred to him that as a weasel, she could've saved herself and left him to die. Again.
But when the time came, she didn't. Again.
Cynthia Hand
#50. For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#51. We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#52. When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.
Cassidy Gifford
#53. We're going to live tomorrow, and for long after. We'll have years and years to fight about everything you want to fight about."
He made it sound like it was a desirable thing.
"I hope so," Jane said. "I've been making a list."
"I don't doubt it. What shall we fight about first?
Cynthia Hand
#55. It is wonderful ... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.
Frank Gifford
#56. I talk to my mom like any other kid talks to their mom when they live across the country. You call home and check in about what you ate for your breakfast or if I went for a run that day or if I was in a fight with my friend. It's so normal.
Cassidy Gifford
#57. Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#58. I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.
Gifford Pinchot
#59. We fool ourselves
into thinking
we're strong
then complain
the rest of our lives
crippled by
the consequences.
Barry Gifford
#62. This is something an ordinary man can never know. You will enter the House of Dreams, Juanito, where you will live forever. Your mother and father and sisters and brothers, your grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, all you will greet in their dreams. And only you, among them, will be safe.
Barry Gifford
#64. The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.
Barry Gifford
#66. [On Regis Philbin:] He's like everybody's kid brother with his hand in the cookie jar and his foot in his mouth. You love him, but you can't take him anywhere.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#67. Very few people are blessed enough to call their father a legend, and an even smaller number are able to share that notion with the rest of the world.
Cassidy Gifford
#68. Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
Frank Gifford
#69. I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#70. But right now, at the wedding supper, a bigger problem was emerging. Every time G thought about how to break the news to her, he gulped down a cup of ale. And he thought about it a lot. Every time he looked at his new bride. And he looked at her a lot.
Cynthia Hand
#71. The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.
Gifford Pinchot
#72. A two-career couple with children is a complex, sensitive piece of machinery with lots of moving parts. Anything less than total cooperation will throw it out of whack and shut it down. A couple can wind up paying the ultimate price for trying to have it all - losing it all.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#74. People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#75. The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde.
Barry Gifford
#76. When you came after me at the tavern, you nearly died." He looked wrecked at the memory. "You nearly died, and then who would I have argued with?"
"You'd have found someone."
"No." He stepped toward her. "I only want to argue with you.
Cynthia Hand
#78. The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.
Gifford Pinchot
#79. World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.
Gifford Pinchot
#80. Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
Frank Gifford
#81. My values are non-negotiable. And if it means not getting a role, it means not getting a role.
Cassidy Erin Gifford
#82. I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon ... But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them ... My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.
Gifford Pinchot
#84. A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
William Gifford
#86. If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#87. I like sitting in the dark and watching people far more talented than I'll ever be sing my songs and say my words. It's thrilling.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#88. Again, he thought better of this tactic.
Sweet lady, there are those of us who sleep lying down, and those of us who sleep standing up. I can do both.
Cynthia Hand
#89. No horse jokes," he said.
"My lord, I apologize for the horse joke. If you put down the book
unharmed!
I will give you a carrot."
He brandished the book at her. "Was that a horse joke?"
"Neigh."
"Was that a horse joke?
Cynthia Hand
#90. No wonder women have achieved a more equal footing with men in areas they never fought for
ulcers, hypertension, and heart attacks. We're racing around trying to be all things to all people, burdened by a brutal mix of ambition, anxiety, and guilt.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#92. If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#93. I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.
Kathie Lee Gifford
#95. You should try to be nicer to the other horses. You're herd animals. Who will you run with if he goes back to tell the others of your two-faced personality? Who will you compare apple notes with? Soon you won't have any friends but me.
Cynthia Hand
#98. Philippians 4:13 has never rung so true ... You were an unparalleled Giant in all sense of the word, Dad. So keep doin' you up there, because no one does it better, and no one ever will.
Cassidy Gifford
#99. When you fall in love, you must fall in love with a man the way he is now, because marriage won't change anything, except maybe your tax deduction.
Kathie Lee Gifford
