Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Louis Gates

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.

Henry Miller

If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.

Henry Miller

Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.

Henny Youngman

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

Henri Frederic Amiel

In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians.

Helen Keller

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Helen Keller

The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Helen Keller

I am not a perfect being. . . . I have more faults than I know what to do with. I have a naughty temper. I am stubborn, impatient of hindrances and of stupidity. I have not in the truest sense a Christian spirit. I am naturally a fighter. I am lazy. I put off till tomorrow what I might better do today. I do not feel that I have been compensated for the two senses I lack. I have worked hard for all the senses I have got, and always I beg for more.

Helen Keller

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Helen Keller

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Catharine MacKinnon

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

Cat Stevens

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

George Eliot

the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

George Eliot

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Everybody's gone. They all had a place to go for Christmas, and this is probably the first year that's ever happened. It's definitely unusual, but everybody had a relative or someone to stay with. It's a quirk of fate, I guess.

It's Christmas in May for traders. This was the wrong decision, and we're all going to pay the price for it.

Charles Dickens

It's Christmas Day! said Scrooge to himself. ""I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.

It's really has made quite a difference. The main thing is that being able to participate in the community a lot more. Over Christmas I was able to get into at least three houses, that I haven't been into for 10 years so it's been quite a dramatic change.

Tom Moody

It's pretty hectic. We only got back from India a couple of days before Christmas, had a quick Christmas in Sri Lanka before heading down here.

Consumers have tightened the purse strings and this could continue over the next few months approaching Christmas.

Consumers continued to spend right up to Christmas. Considering the post-holiday sales over the next few weeks and consumers' eagerness to purchase items they may not have received during the holidays, we expect that spending in the final days of 2004 will continue to rise.

Consumers continued to shop right up until the very last minute on Christmas Eve as seen by our spike in sales.

Consumer confidence is a blow-out number. It also ought to make people feel better about Christmas sales.

Ever since Christmas the kids said they were sick of getting pushed around and the least we can do is go and fight. I can't say enough about our kids' effort. It was unbelievable.

It was strictly his decision. We did his evaluation before Christmas, and he said he was thinking about resigning. I told him to think it through and if he wanted to, we'd like a letter in the first week of January.

It will be a nice, little Christmas, just the four of us. We just got the tree up and the decorations (Thursday) night.

It's a Christmas picture of Brock & his tank, overseas that he sent up around Christmas time.

It's actually fairly critical that we have a definitive time frame, because as we move into the Christmas season, a number of hotels have reservations and bookings. It may become more challenging for us to find accommodations.

It's a blessing. It was my Christmas present.

Dan Johnson

It is particularly difficult this Christmas because we have to squeeze in an extra game.

Robbie Williams

It's a fantastic result -- Happy Christmas to everybody.

Chauncey Billups

It's just another game, really. I mean, it's Christmas and that's a little more fun, playing a big game on TV. Other than that, it's early. I just want to be playing that team in June.

It's just people who love the Lord. It's just a big old Christian jam session.