Famous Quotes & Sayings

But he proved them wrong. He woke up around Christmas, and that gave us the Christmas miracle we had been hoping for.

Charles Dickens

I am the Ghost of Christmas Present, said the Spirit. ""Look upon me!

Dion Phaneuf

Bryon Ritchie made a great screen and Chris Simon with the pass out to me put it right on my tape, luckily I got it through.

This is a big part of why I am taking it so hard, because I was so close. If Chris was 7th, not 4th, then I was going. It was that close.

This investment has been wiped out today. It's been wiped out on this Christmas Eve. We have nothing.

O. J. Simpson

They spent the time to open everything up like Christmas morning in my living room.

They used my living room, my son's room, the garage and the filming sometimes lasted until 2 am. They turned my house into a Christmas wonderland. My kids, Corey and Ryan, loved it. The people were wonderful.

John Schultz

Enthusiasm for his life, enthusiasm for his job, enthusiasm to get to his family for Christmas.

encourages his players to live a Christian life.

DUI arrests during the Christmas holiday doubled statewide from last year. We had 1,209 statewide DUI arrests versus 622 in 2004.

Each year we try to make our park better than the last, and this year I am confidant we have accomplished just that. We have had several delays to the park opening, but it was an excellent Christmas surprise and I think people will find it was worth the wait.

Feb. 2, that's when we take the tree down. Christmas lasts until that day.

There's pretty much nobody home in the foreign brokerages now due to Christmas celebrations, and domestic institutional investors have no particular incentive to trade either.

A story from 'Last Barrier' aptly illustrates it. The Turkish Sufi Master tells his Christians devotee that every morning he sends a message of love to no one particular; whoever is ready, listens to it, responds.

At Thanksgiving, we got to eat inside and it was great! Our time was winding down. But we saw places being decorated with Christmas ornaments.

Oren Arnold

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

Ronald Reagan

We should declare war on North Vietnam - we could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas

We think it would be really good for husbands at Christmas, when their wives are power-shopping.

Gordon Strachan

We are very keen that Chris remains at the club and, hopefully, this can be achieved.

Unlike the issue of messiahhood, which arose when Jews and Christians were members of the same religio-political community and spoke the same conceptual language, the issues of the incarnation and the Trinity divide people who are no longer members of the same community and who no longer speak the same language.

We dabbled with getting a guy who could maybe be a transition closer until Chris could take over, but we were never really all that serious because we really feel like he's our guy.

We are trying to get Chris Williams healthy and he will be a player in the conference soon.

We're going into the Thanksgiving and Christmas season, and this is where the retailers, at least, are going to make it up. The GDP figures that are boosted by consumer spending remain to be seen.

We're very happy to have Chris return to the Red Wings. He's a veteran goaltender who knows what it takes to compete and win championships in a great hockey city like Detroit.

We feel that Chris is not only a tremendous player, but also a terrific leader. For us to have success, Chris is going to have to be a big part of it.

You got to think about Thanksgiving, Christmas . . . we're going to be in a new environment, ... We're used to going over to each other's house and eating. That's going to be the hard part.

Pat Robertson

It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today) are primarily termites. They are into destroying institutions that have been built by Christians, whether it is universities, governments, our own traditions, that we have.... The termites are in charge now, and that is not the way it ought to be, and the time has arrived for a godly fumigation.

Michel Faber

'A Christmas Carol' is an extravagantly symbolic thing - as rich in symbols as Christmas pudding is rich in raisins.

Spalding Gray

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room.

Richard Lamm

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

Anna Jameson

... the primitve Christians, by laying so much stress upon a future life in contradiction to this life, and placing the lower creatures out of the pale of sympathy, and thus had the foundation for this utter disregard of animals in the light of our fellow creatures.

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

Lee Matthews

This was a big win for us having lost all three matches last week. Chris pulled out an important match at number three to give us the momentum going into doubles.