Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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'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.

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.

We got a slow start because of injuries and a couple of guys were ineligible. But right before Christmas we were playing really good. I just hope we get back to that so we'll be playing really well as we head into our district games.

We just don't have the numbers. We let down right before Christmas, and you can't do that.

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

You have to pick things that people will like around Christmas.

Eric Williams

This year alone, Karen has used Kristi's Christmas to organize relief efforts for the tsunami and hurricane victims. She gathered up frequent-flyer miles for Katrina victims so they could come up here to get back on their feet.

We all four haven't been together at Christmas since 2002. This will be a very special Christmas for all of us.

We all take pride in what they've been able to do; we feel like we were part of it. I still consider them my closest friends. They're the guys you talk to on Christmas Day. It's the closest staff I've been a part of in 22 years of coaching.

David James

We're surprised she would have spent that long away from her nest when she had a chick. That begs the question: Why does she need to go that far? It raises the suspicion that fish resources around Christmas Island are not currently adequate. That might explain the slow and gradual decline of the bird.

There is no question we would like more than one day to prepare for Memphis. But we were stuck with the start of the Big Ten and with the Christmas holidays.

I've shot hundreds of models. Of all the ones I've shot, she is the only one who sent me a Christmas card. I'll never forget that.

I've never seen this many consumers not done with their Christmas shopping.

Brian Posehn

I've played D&D for years. I'm a comic book guy. Comic-Con in San Diego is nerd Christmas for me.

Garth Brooks

It was the perfect Christmas gift to each other. We could not be happier.