Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

Charles Dickens

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One!

Charles Dickens

Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.

Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to the world!

Charles Dickens

But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

Charles Dickens

Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong, and trouble in the world around us, should be active with us, not less than our own experiences, for all good.

Charles Dickens

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content. “As good as gold,” said Bob, “and better. Somehow he gets thoughtful, sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk, and blind men see.

Charles Dickens

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

Charles Dickens

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Kalvin Baker

We want to slow them down and not let them run. We can compete with them if we play good defense.

Darius Kasparaitis

We want to show that we can compete with the good teams and we can be there and we're (in this position) not by accident. I think tonight's game proved it, that we can play at a high level.

Nick Saban

We want to see guys compete so we can know whether they need to be here, we want them to be here and if they are the kind of people we want. The record doesn't really matter, the result doesn't matter and the score in the game doesn't really matter.

Robert Mugabe

We are a democratic country and my party enjoys overwhelming support. The two gentlemen who purported to have withdrawn actually found it very tough to compete with us. We will win this election,

Leslie Jones

We are looking to keep our errors to a minimum this year. We lost to Lone Peak by one run because we had two errors. If we can keep the errors down we feel we can compete with anybody.

Shen Xue

We still love figure skating, and we hope we can compete in the Worlds.

Lucas Black

You know, when you're trying to get better at golf, you're always measuring your game up against other people to see what you've got to do to get better and to see if you can compete with them.

Istvan Gyulai

We have no problem with that. Whether or not they can compete in the trials, we leave it in the hands of USA Track & Field.

Danielle Kamm

We have NCAA tournament ability. It's disappointing, but we still get to keep playing. We're still going to go out and compete and play the game we love.

Carolina Herrera

Any business is the same in the beginning because nobody knows where it's going to ride.

Jim Calhoun

We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.

Pete Summerbell

We got to the state championship game. Nobody can take that away from us.

Bobby Cox

With two outs and nobody on you feel like you're going to win a ballgame, ... We just did not get big hits.

Andre Cook

We're just here to play basketball. When we were 2-5, nobody was protesting, so that's just how it is.

Rick Cornett

We're really cornered. Nobody wants our season to end in three games. We just have to keep working.

Romeo Miller

I feel nobody has limits. It's all in your head. If you have a big dream, go after it and go get it.

Rory Bremner

I don't have olive skin. Nobody could tell from my skin that I'm Mediterranean. I'm quite fair, and I do burn easily.

Manny Diaz

The process is ongoing, nobody has pulled the plug,