Gods Gift Of Children Quotes

And to Rhaego son of Drogo, the stallion who will mount the world, to him I also pledge a gift. To him I will give this iron chair his mother's father sat in. I will give him Seven Kingdoms. I, Drogo, khal, will do this thing.' His voice rose, and he lifted his fist in the sky. 'I will take my khalasar west to where the world ends, and ride the wooden horses across the black salt water as no khal has done before. I will kill the men in the iron suits and tear down their stone houses. I will rape their women, take their children as slaves, and bring their broken gods back to Vaes Dothrak to bow down beneath the Mother of Mountains. This I vow, I, Drogo son of Bharbo. This I swear before the Mother of Mountains, as the stars look down in witness. ~ George R R Martin

Your smile is a gift of the gods. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments. ~ Dick Cavett

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

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. ~ Anita Brookner

Gift the children corruption free nation. Happy Children's day. ~ Vikrmn

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons. ~ Marcus Aurelius

The gift of faith given to your children will last longer than any monetary gift. ~ Eve M. Harrell

Song of praise: Be joyful and count your blessings.There are so many things to be thankful for; the gift of being alive, blessings of a new day to hope and dream, the gift of families, the gift of children, the gift of friends, gift of people who make you laugh and smiles, the gift of strangers who show you kindness,the gift of nature, gift of educators, gift of preachers and many more. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of being a woman is that even without children of your own, you can still be the greatest mother. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

The moment is a gracious gift. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child. ~ Debra Messing

The last gift a parent can give to children is to teach them, through example, how to face death with equanimity. ~ Irvin D. Yalom

Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, pg. 3. ~ Jonathan King

Above all, consider this: The greatest gift we can give ourselves, our children, and our world is to live well and love well. ~ Alexandra Katehakis

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods. ~ John Holloway

Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy? ~ Seneca.

The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision and dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture. ~ Dale Pendell

Even in the darkest times the gods are always there. ~ Tomi Adeyemi

Eternal life is not a gift from God, eternal life is the gift of God. ~ Oswald Chambers

They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? ~ Rick Riordan

I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better. ~ Ruth Bernhard

Heard someone say children are god's gift to the world. What world are you referring to? And what's your definition of gift? ~ Dov Davidoff

The precious gift of life must be preserved no matter now painful and pointless it seemed. Peace, I told them, is a gift so perfect that only God should grant it. I told people, only God's most selfish children would steal God's greatest gift, His only gift greater than life. The gift of death.
This lesson is to the murderer, I said. This is to the suicide. This is to the abortionist. This is to the suffering and sick.
Only God has the right to surprise His children with death. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Gods are children's blankets that get carried over into adulthood. ~ James Randi

Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me. ~ Robert Southwell

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it. ~ Marcus Aurelius

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light. ~ Mary Stewart

Free choice is the greatest gift God gives to his children. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross

A parent holds within their hands the gift of a child to which they must expend the gift of themselves. And in such a monumental outpouring, the parent will lose both the child and the gifts given, but they will possess the far greater gift of knowing that they gave both. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reading with children is an enormous gift to them. It's a great honor to invite children to read with adults. ~ Henri Nouwen

Every good gift comes from God. ~ Lailah Gifty, Akita

How I envy you creative people - creativity is a gift from the gods ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Gift of the Real Estate Gods. ~ Gary Keller

Children represent God's most generous gift to us. ~ James Dobson

My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again. ~ Salman Rushdie

The gods are for whatever we wish. That is the point of gods. The gods will carry me onwards, and that is all that matters. ~ Kieron Gillen

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. ~ Seneca The Younger

You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based ~ Sunday Adelaja

Perhaps he still hopes. If there's any justice in the Gods' injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they're impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when they're trivial.
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Every dream is the same dream, for they're all dreams. Let the Gods change my dreams, but not my gift for dreaming. ~ Fernando Pessoa

There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods. ~ Rudolfo Anaya

All around us are the miracles of God. A tiny seed grows into a peepul tree. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly! ~ Dada J.P. Vaswani

The next parent who Googles Is my 2-year-old gifted? should get a curt response: Your 2-year-old is a gift. ~ Ron Fournier

Knowledge is our gift.
Understanding is our blessing.
Wisdom is our fortune.
Enlightenment is our reward.

Art is our gift.
Science is our blessing.
Technology is our fortune.
God is our reward.

Time is our gift.
Light is our blessing.
Fate is our fortune.
Nature is our reward.

Land is our gift.
Water is our blessing.
Air is our fortune.
Life is our reward.

Mothers are our gift.
Youth are our blessing.
Elders are our fortune.
Children are our reward.

The past is our gift.
The present is our blessing.
The future is our fortune.
Eternity is our reward.

The mind is our gift.
The heart is our blessing.
The body is our fortune.
The soul is our reward.

Faith is our gift.
Joy is our blessing.
Virtue is our fortune.
Love is our reward. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

The gift of the Holy Ghost operates equally with men, women, and even little children. It is within this wondrous gift and power that the spiritual remedy to any problem can be found. ~ Boyd K. Packer

Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. ~ Euripides

A woman who knows where she stands, will remain standing; even when everything around her is crumbling. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

All gods are selfish and vain. Gods demand worship. Gods demand prayer. ~ Brent Hayward

Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo, we have become as gods. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

A gift was what another person thought of you, and over the years he'd come to understand, by consensus, that his children saw him as someone who wore a tie to work, used power tools, played golf and drank scotch, which, while all true, seemed a superficial view of him. And yet when asked directly, he couldn't say what he wanted. Nothing. ~ Stewart O'Nan

Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory. ~ Monica Johnson

Jacob was a gift from the gods. ~ Stephenie Meyer

When the storm comes all the way to you, ask God to make a way for you. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Parenting our children peacefully is a gift of peace to the world. Children learn what they live and live what they learn. ~ L.R. Knost

Our children are the gift we give the world we'll never see. ~ Lee Salk

The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods. ~ F.T. McKinstry

[W]e have reason to ask what artists are working specially for children, and whether they are running with the popular tide or saying something special.... In America, we had the 'parlor gift book' makers, but we also had Howard Pyle. ~ Louise Seaman Bechtel

We are souls, eternal and perfect, captains of our mystic ships: gods and goddesses of our universe. We are beautiful, we pearls of grit. We, the ember of everything. Our uniqueness IS what makes us special, and the expression of it is our gift to the rest of us. In order to feel happy and fulfilled, we must honour our own personal brand of creativity... let it out into the world... BE who we came here to BE. ~ Angie Karan

Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods. ~ Emo Philips

If you give me a gift, it'd be insulting to pay you, because I'd be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift to you is to accept your gift, thereby allowing you to enjoy the gift of giving. ~ Jarod Kintz

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought. ~ Richard Scarry

How can we give to the Lord? What shall we give to him? Every kind word to our own, every help given them, is as a gift to God, whose chief concern is the welfare of his children. Every gentle deed to our neighbor, every kindness to the poor and suffering, is a gift to the Lord, before whom all mankind are equal. Every conformity to the Lord's plan of salvation-and this is of first importance-is a direct gift to God, for thereby we fit ourselves more nearly for our divinely planned destiny. ~ John Andreas Widtsoe

You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along. ~ Martin Luther

If I don't recognize a gift as a gift it will be something, but it won't be a gift. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I don't think God will continue to bless America if we continue to kill 1.2 million children every year. ~ Rick Santorum

You have been waiting for a gift all the while but you forgot that you are the gift - unwrap the gem within and shine! ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

No matter what the world said, my magic was beautiful. Even without powers, the gods had blessed me with a gift. ~ Tomi Adeyemi

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways. ~ Linda Ronstadt

The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesitated. "Any gift?"
Zeus nodded grimly. "I know what you will ask. The greatest gift of all. Yes, if you want it, it shall be yours. The gods have not bestowed this gift on a mortal hero in many centuries, but, Perseus Jackson-if you wish it-you shall be made a god. Immortal. Undying. You shall serve as your father's lieutenant for all time."
I stared at him, stunned. "Um ... a god?"
Zeus rolled his eyes. "A dimwitted god, apparently. But yes. With the consensus of the entire Council, I can make you immortal. Then I will have to put up with you forever."
"Hmm," Ares mused. "That means I can smash him to a pulp as often as I want, and he'll just keep coming back for more. I like this idea. ~ Rick Riordan

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are. ~ Angela Thirkell

Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

Hero," said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. "Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let's try not to annoy them. ~ Sulari Gentill

If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. ~ Kawai Strong Washburn

Pain is a gift from the gods. ~ George R R Martin

Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own! ~ William Shakespeare

I think that our whole country needs to have more love and compassion for all children. All life is valuable and a gift from God. Pregnancy is not something that "just happens." Pregnancy is a gift from God. I think it is God telling us "OK, you are responsible enough to raise this new young life that I, God, am going to give you." And for people who can't conceive children, God may be asking you for an even more generous response - to adopt and raise a child. ~ Kim Alexis

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have. ~ Carol Ann Duffy

The Lord God must be greatly feared! We can't stand his wrath. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The best gift you can give your children is to keep yourself emotionally, physically, spiritually and intellectually healthy. ~ Iben Dissing Sandahl

Each and every being has an innate ability to heal as a gift from the gods. ~ Mikao Usui

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. ~ Rose Kennedy

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom. ~ Victoria Chang

A powerful woman chooses to stand up, even when people may have chosen to bring her down. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don't mess with you. Plastic gods don't matter much; they fit in a small crevice of the life you want, the life you were planning to have. And when everything in life is working . . . plastic gods feel like enough. ~ Jennie Allen

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. ~ Russell Lynes

Kill her. Hide the body. If only he could ... Damn, stupid conscience. Why had the gods given them that gift? It definitely should have come with a return policy.' (Syn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

We do not turn from our false gods to become God's children. We turn from them because we are. ~ Kelly Minter

If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law. ~ Padgett Powell

Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me. ~ Mother Teresa

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~ Agnes Repplier

Repentance is a gift of God's grace. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped out of fire, a gift from the old gods to her father the king. There had been no Hindu gods involved in my birth, but the loose parallels gave me a delightful sense of grandeur. ~ Sangu Mandanna

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. ~ P.D. James

And this need for communality of worship is the chief torment of each man individually, and of mankind as a whole, from the beginning of the ages. In the cause of universal worship, they have destroyed each other with the sword. They have made gods and called upon each other: "Abandon your gods and come and worship ours, otherwise death to you and your gods!" And so it will be until the end of the world, even when all gods have disappeared from the earth: they will still fall down before idols. (...) I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quick as possible that gift of freedom with which the miserable creature is born. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! ~ Joyce Meyer

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~ Theodor Reik

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children. ~ Euripides

If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern. ~ Peter S. Beagle