Meaningful Presents Quotes

If you don't make Christmas presents, meaning making something that's so emotionally connected to people, don't talk to me.

We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

Presents are the best way to show someone how much you care. It is like this tangible thing that you can point to and say, Hey man, I love you this many dollars-worth.

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.

I'm all about thoughtful gifts. If you put thought behind it - it could be $5 - but if there's thought behind it, I think that's what matters.

The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?

The only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .

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

Dumb. He should have gotten the pen. Jewelry was so public... and personal, which was why he'd bought it. He couldn't buy Eleanor a pen. Or a bookmark. He didn't have bookmarklike feelings for her.

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

I don't over-gift. I don't inundate my child with a lot of things.

Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher entitles the bearer to two hours' reading time *while the kids are awake*. It might look like a cheapskate present, but parents will appreciate that it costs more in real terms than a Lamborghini.