Words matter. These are the best Giver Quotes from famous people such as Tyler Perry, Lois Lowry, Adam Grant, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Rudy Ruettiger, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love to give. I’ve been a giver all my life.
I think ‘The Giver’ is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn’t believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Don’t be a taker, be a giver, because when you give you get back.
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
You can’t celebrate gifts without celebrating the giver of all gifts, so I want to celebrate Jesus.
In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.
It’s very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.
At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient – philanthropic prudence is also needed.
‘Gathering Blue’ was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to ‘The Giver.’
God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it – He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That’s why its imperative to submit to Him.
A good gift celebrates the relationship between the giver and the receiver. When you open that box, you feel like, ‘Wow, you really understood me.’ At the same time, you think this gift could come only from that person.
I think I heard about ‘The Giver’ being made from when I was 11 or 12 years old. When I got the audition for this movie, I already knew that Meryl Streep was attached to it, and Jeff Bridges, obviously.
I’m honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better – my girlfriends have always complained about that.
‘Snowpiercer’ is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. ‘The Giver’ is more about teen angst.
People in the know say ‘The Giver’ was the first young adult dystopian novel.
It’s a great gift in my throat. When you have a gift, you think about the giver. Who gave this to me? And this takes you to a spiritual sense of God. That has captivated me all through my life, serving that lucky gift.
‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry – I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was my favorite book as a child, and I read and reread it. I would pretend I lived in that world and that Asher was my best friend.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Love the giver more than the gift.
My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up – and I’m that person for sure.
Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!
Yeah, I’m a giver. I’ve learned to be selective of the people in my world, because if I love someone, I will give them my blood, whatever they need. In doing so, one can end up with little left for themselves.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.
Kindness boggles my mind. It’s the only force in nature that increases simultaneously for the giver and the receiver.
I tend not to think about audience when I’m writing. Many people who read ‘The Giver’ now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of ‘The Giver’: the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
It’s interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although ‘The Giver’ does have an ambiguous ending. I’ve heard about that from readers over the years.
I was always a giver by nature. I wanted to make sure the person next to me or maybe even the person I don’t know didn’t go without if I could help it. That’s always been in me.
