Gifford Quotes & Sayings

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day. — Kathie Lee Gifford

The world is really wild at heart and weird on top. — Barry Gifford

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

The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary. — Gifford Pinchot

When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff. — Cassidy Gifford

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

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. — Frank Gifford

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football. — Frank Gifford

Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Technology is the new religion of urban China, and no longer just in the coastal cities. Having wasted decades, centuries almost, overcoming traditional objections to progress, and then wasted thirty years convulsing to a Maoist revolutionary tune, the Chinese have finally gotten themselves into a position where they can develop technology and begin to take on the world. Everywhere you see signs that say REVIVE THE NATION THROUGH SCIENCE AND EDUCATION. — Rob Gifford

How strange it was to...watch her walk round the table and the chairs by the fire, pick up my shells from the shore along the mantelpiece, and smile at everything and examine it as if she were reading the story of my life in the intervening years. She ran her hand along the book spines on the shelves, stopping to greet an old friend as she took it down to read a little. — Elisabeth Gifford

Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump. — Kathie Lee Gifford

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. — Gifford Pinchot

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

What's your point?" He spun around in his chair and took a brown file folder from a wire rack on the credenza behind him next to a couple of generic office plants. He opened it, took out a sheet of paper, and looked at it for a moment. Then he handed it to me. It was a fax from a bank in the Caymans called Transatlantic Bank & Trust (Cayman) Limited, located on Mary Street in George Town, Grand Cayman. A copy of a copy of a copy, festooned with smudges and photocopier artifacts. It was a letter from Roger, on Gifford Industries letterhead, to the bank's manager. A letter of instruction. — Joseph Finder

The sign says BLIND PEOPLE'S ARBORETUM. I stand, still out of breath, dripping sweat and marveling at such a beautiful concept - in China, of all places, where disabled people are still often considered flawed and superfluous. I have never seen anything like this, even in the United States or Europe, and yet here, hidden away on the edge of a noisy, bustling, modernizing Chinese city, someone has taken the effort and expense to plant this beautiful, tree-hugging garden - an island of stop-and-rest in a sea of smash-and-grab. 5. — Rob Gifford

To this day I do not believe I'm great at anything. — Kathie Lee Gifford

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine. — Kathie Lee Gifford

If I'm in love I want to get married. That's how stupid I am. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Truth has always been relative in China, but political power has not, they say, and the same is still true today. — Rob Gifford

A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate,
For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate. — William Gifford

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot

They don't call me spontaneous and irreverant for nothing. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

Who Am I? Well, I am the Imaginary Friend. You know-the one you conjure up for conversation when you're consumed with loneliness, greed or visions of imminent doom. I have listened to thousands of stories and it would be a shame if they just stayed with me, never to be heard again. I have chosen to share only the ones I found to be particularly... curious. Have you ever been troubled by nightmares? Were you relieved when you woke up? No matter. Are you sure you can tell the difference between the nightmare and the waking state? Think it through before giving me your answer. Sometimes only an imaginary friend can truly listen to your deepest troubles and most distressing woes. Wouldn't you agree? — P.S. Gifford

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

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I busted him and he busted me. That's fair ain't it?
No, I ain't forgettin about jail. You think because he arrested me that thows it off again I reckon? I don't. It's his job. It's what he gets paid for. To arrest people that break the law. And I didn't jest break the law, I made a livin at it. More money in three hours than any workin man makes in a week. Why is that? Because it's harder work? No, because a man who makes a livin doin somethin that has to get him in jail sooner or later has to be paid for the jail, has to be paid in advance not jest for his time breakin the law but for the time he has to build when he gets caught at it. So I been paid. Gifford's been paid. Nobody owes nobody. If it wadn't for Gifford, the law, I wouldn't of had the job I had blockadin and if it wadn't for me blockadin, Gifford wouldn't of had his job arrestin blockaders. Now who owes who? — Cormac McCarthy

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

Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life — Kathie Lee Gifford

We'd fight so much less if everyone would just sit down and read. Gifford's — Cynthia Hand

Innovation never happens as planned. — Gifford Pinchot

To me an audition is 30 crazed people in a room waiting to be axed. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Romeo gritted his teeth and let the wind hit his face. Believe it, he told himself. Life with this woman will be without apologies. — Barry Gifford

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

I have empathy for the person who is being interviewed and written about with all kinds of misperceptions and misconceptions and flat-out lies. So I feel for them, I feel their pain. I know what that is like. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

Life seemed so simple and joyous when I was growing up. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

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

If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target. — Gifford Pinchot

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

Twenty-four hours is never enough for a busy person and way too much for somebody with nothing to do. — Kathie Lee Gifford

The only words worth repeating are from the Old Testament or Oscar Wilde. — Barry Gifford

Our inner experience is that which we think, feel, remember, perceive, sense, decide, plan and predict. These experiences are actually mental actions, or mental activity (Van der Hart et al., 2006). Mental activity, in which we engage all the time, may or may not be accompanied by behavioral actions. It is essential that you become aware of, learn to tolerate and regulate, and even change major mental actions that affect your current life, such as negative beliefs, and feelings or reactions to the past the interfere with the present. However, it is impossible to change inner experiences if you are avoiding them because you are afraid, ashamed or disgusted by them. Serious avoidance of you inner experiences is called experiential avoidance (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, & Follettte, 1996), or the phobia of inner experience (Steele, Van der Hart, & Nijenhuis, 2005; Van der Hart et al., 2006). — Suzette Boon

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

Innovations never happen as planned. — Gifford Pinchot

I would never want to hurt anyone by writing a book. — Kathie Lee Gifford

The lumbermen ... regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools ... And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating. — Gifford Pinchot

I want to be free and free indeed and live and live abundant! — Kathie Lee Gifford

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations. — Kathie Lee Gifford

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I know I'm not inspiring much confidence at this point, but there's something else I thought I'd bring up." She lifted her eyes to him. "I love you more than I love books. — Cynthia Hand

I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time. — Gifford Pinchot

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

Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport us. Upon them we depend for every material necessity, comfort, convenience, and protection in our lives. Without abundant resources prosperity is out of reach. — Gifford Pinchot

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

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips. — Frank Gifford

Where conflicting interests must be reconciled, the question shall always be answered from the standpoint of the greatest good of the greatest number in the long run. — Gifford Pinchot

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

For every sleazeball in the business there are plenty of decent and wonderful people. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in. — Kathie Lee Gifford

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father. — Frank Gifford

The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not sown, wasting what he thought would last forever. New railroads were opening new territory. The exploiters were pushing farther and farther into the wilderness. The man who could get his hands on the biggest slice of natural resources was the best citizen. Wealth and virtue were supposed to trot in double harness. — Gifford Pinchot

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

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

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot

Learning is the gradual replacement of fantasy with fact. — Gifford Pinchot

There were no bigger stars in the new evangelism than the Bakkers. — Kathie Lee Gifford

She smiled, nodded, and kept walking. She waved her badge at the proximity sensor, stepped into the revolving door, and entered the cavernous atrium. Right in the center, surrounded by tropical foliage, was a huge bronze globe, the continents sculpted in sharp relief. On the front of the globe, set at a jaunty angle, was the Gifford Industries logo, which couldn't have been more hokey: retro squared-off streamlined script that must have looked futuristic when it was designed in the 1930s. A couple more people waved at her, flashed sympathetic looks, and she ducked into the express elevator to the twenty-fourth floor. She slid her security card into the slot, and the elevator rose. The lights in the executive suite were already on, which surprised her. She was normally the first one in. She passed her prox badge against the sensor until it beeped, then pushed open the glass doors. When she rounded the corner, she saw someone sitting at her desk. Noreen Purvis. 23. — Joseph Finder

Trust takes one second to lose and a lifetime to rebuild. — Kathie Lee Gifford

We're imperfect people trapped in an imperfect world until we get to that place beyond. — Kathie Lee Gifford

What a dire time to be attracted to men. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography. — Carolyn Merchant

People were referring to me as the new Anita Bryant. Anita would get a little jealous. — Kathie Lee Gifford

I'm post-menopausal. I have nothing but time. Post-menopausal do not sleep. You obviously don't know one. We get about three hours of sleep a night and the rest of the time we have to do something productive with our time. — Kathie Lee Gifford

People may be in awe of perfection, but they warm to humanity. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Love someone too much to help them prevent making a mistake. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Many Chinese-born scientists have returned from abroad to continue their research, not just out of patriotism but because Chinese research facilities have become so cutting-edge. The Communist revolution's annihilation of traditional thinking has also made for an astonishingly free approach to areas such as medical research; scientists can try things that are banned in the West by strict ethics laws. (I would not be surprised if the first cloned human being is already lurking somewhere along the banks of the Yangtze River.) — Rob Gifford

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Virtue alone is true nobility. — William Gifford

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. — Kathie Lee Gifford

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

Gray skies are just clouds passing over. — Frank Gifford

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

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own. — William Gifford

If you settle for what you've got, you deserve what you get. — Kathie Lee Gifford

Very funny, my lady. And that reminds me"
he pointed a finger at her
"no horse jokes."
He was making it too easy. "Ah, my lord, why the long face?"
"That's it! — Cynthia Hand