Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Pietersen

That's not a Christmas present. It's with you for the rest of your life, so no one can take it away from me and say I'm not English.

Even though we can't require it, most guys compete and play in tournaments over Christmas on their own.

Al Goodman

Even if this spill doesn't get any worse, the damage from it -- and that's of course not sure -- a leading fishing industry executive says that the Christmas season is already ruined by this spill for several thousand fishermen and their families.

Even in this business, it is customer service that's important. It might be Christmas, New Year's, Christmas Eve -- times you don't want to go, but you've gotta.

Between the championship game and the Hawaii Bowl, I don't think I need a Christmas.

Being a professional circuit fisherman, Jay has a unique position to connect with millions of sporting men concerning what Jesus Christ has done in his life, ... Jay has a tremendous testimony and it is a privilege to host him in Southeast Texas.

E. B. White

because I'm trying to live a Christian life and I want to do that for what happened with him but I've had some dark hours. It has completely destroyed me physically and mentally.

Everyone's winding down for Christmas so volumes are coming off, but that's pretty normal for this time of year.

Mario Batali

Every region has its own specialties, and whether it was Christmas Eve and the seafood dinner and the seven courses, whichever family you were from, it's a visceral part of your life.

Football has been very good to my family. Every Saturday to me is like Christmas morning. You don't know what you're going to get, but you're really excited.

Its themes are about family, about not giving up on your dreams, courage. They are very secular virtues, but they also could potentially be Christian virtues.

Its themes are about family, about not giving up on your dreams, courage, ... They are very secular virtues, but they also could potentially be Christian virtues.

It's like Christmas, you know there's a present under the tree, you just don't know what it is.

It's like Christmas for us. They have every stick you could ever imagine and they all want you to use their sticks, so you can try them out. You can even order a couple and test them out over the summer. That's a fun day.

It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.

Jeff Daniels

It's like a second Christmas. I'm not sure I deserve it.

Paul Christopher

It's kind of like getting another sweater for Christmas. It's OK, but not what we really wanted to see. If you're really looking for immediate relief in interest rates, it may take another month or so.

It's kind of like Christmas. You'll be waiting and waiting and waiting, but you try not to think about it.

It's kind of like Christmas. It's on Dec. 25 and then all of a sudden they say, no, it's Jan. 3 this year. A hurry-to-wait type scenario.

It's like making a Christmas wish list -- a list if it happens .

It's a loss. All of my kids' Christmas presents ... they didn't get to enjoy them. We just got back from Wisconsin.

Tom McCarthy

It's always a blast. As much as we think we give people a good Christmas, the people give us a better Christmas.

James Dobson

The final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end.

James Dobson

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

James Dobson

Traditional Judeo-Christian values literally hang in the balance in America. They can be 'forgotten' in a single generation if they are not taught to children and teenagers... It could happen here if we don't defend what we believe.

James Dobson

We are so busy giving our children what we never had that we forget to give them what we did have.

James Ellroy

I work within the framework of a very concerted, purely driven Protestant Christian mindset. I had dark early circumstances. I went inward. I have a sturdy will. I have a big heart. I'm a decent guy. And I have a great gift. It's blunted me to the world in many ways.

James Ellroy

The lunatic populism that preceded the Pearl Harbor bombing is astonishing in its permutations, its crisscrossings. Guys like [Catholic priest and controversial radio broadcaster] Father Coughlin and [racist and anti-Semitic agitator and founder of the Christian Nationalist Crusade] Gerald L.K. Smith started out as share-the-wealth socialists.

Janeane Garofalo

[Conservative talk radio hosts] have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

Janeane Garofalo

When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.

Ernest Renan

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Ernest Renan

It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.

Ernest Renan

True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of Paul have been a danger and a hidden rock, the causes of the principal defects of Christian theology.