Famous Quotes & Sayings

Because of the shift of increased spending by consumers, it's just such a critical industry right now. Christmas is proof of that. Sales of clothing and jewelry fell year over year, but consumer electronics picked up.

Because this has happened around Christmas, we haven't got it in writing yet, but we've got a program for him.

Emily King

I lost contact with coach until Christmas of my senior year. I then visited in January and made my final decision in February, which is pretty late to do that.

My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the headmaster Mr. Broakes. He must have spotted something unusual in me, for he spent lots of time encouraging my interest in mathematics.

More Americans are waiting to the end to shop for Christmas than any other time in the last 10 years. The consumer was never excited about anything that they saw this Christmas.

Donna Williams

Monday night is going to be like Christmas. He's been waiting a long time and it's finally here.

My greatest emotion at this point is anger, ... my pastoral, Christian side says I can't do that.

David Ayer

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

Amar'e Stoudemire

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

Lawton Chiles

Obviously, this is not something we want to do. This is a little like taking away Christmas, ... It's so dangerous.

Obviously it's a great honor to have the track named after me, but it's great to have a track which you can go out and use every day. It really is like Christmas.

Free throw shooting was really bad. Since Christmas, we've improved a lot. We have been around 70 percent since Christmas, but tonight we were not very good from the free throw line.

From a latest and greatest perspective, some customers might be feeling bah humbug about their Christmas purchases.

Drake Bell

I love Christmas. I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super-early' guy.

Robert Williams

I had just met her at the polls on Election Day. When she gave up the reading of the votes in order for her to fulfill her obligation to her church, I just happened to learn through that what a strong Christian she was.

Elizabeth Jones

I have a wrapping fetish, and so I always come out the day after Christmas so I can stock up for next year.

Harry Redknapp

I had to throw a team together at Christmas.

I have a 13-year-old son, so we were up early Christmas morning. We had already finished opening presents when they called. When a dog is hurting, I want to help.

I feel we're going to have a very slow spending season this Christmas.

Mark Twain

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian

Bruce Golding

If Christmas is to mean anything, it must reinforce in us our duty to each other.

Robert Williams

I can't even imagine not observing Christmas in an Episcopal (Anglican) Church.

Growth has been tremendous. We expect to do about 20 times what we did last Christmas this Christmas.

I have had a big problem with my back since Christmas. Doctors gave me some infusions but it did not help me a lot. I started with special exercises but doctors do not recommend a long flight.

I have been waiting for Sean to come back every week, it is like putting Christmas back.

I didn't want Easter to just come and go. I wanted people to think about the last days of Christ leading up to Sunday.

Caterina Murino

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

Ben Fountain

Haiti is unique - the first successful slave revolt in history, the first black republic etc., and then when you get into the culture, the voodoo, and that wonderful synchretization of Christian and African belief and symbology, it's like nothing the world has ever seen.

C. S. Lewis

The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.

C. S. Lewis

What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.

C. S. Lewis

If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake.

C. S. Lewis

Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.