Charitable Act Quotes

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

Let's help people in this country with the resources we have.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.

I collect cigars. I love giving 'em away to people that really enjoy 'em, and I could think of no better place than West Point!

Why not, when it can be done without exposure or expense, let me rescue some of America's miserable children from vice and guilt?

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Fang took the entire family out for coffee and donuts the other night. The kids enjoyed it. It was the first time they'd ever given blood.

The creation of Spoleto was a social experiment. Because I've always suffered guilt from being a Catholic, when I was in my fifties I felt a need of being needed.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.