Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton LaVey

I'm glad that Christian parents let their children worship the devil at least one night out of the year.

Matisyahu

The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

Marcus Trescothick

It is pretty nice to end the tour with a win. We will think of the Indian tour after Christmas.

I thought we played awfully well together, especially coming off Christmas break.

Stockard Channing

I think we'll be gone by Christmas, ... The West Wing.

Houston Nutt

He has made a real sacrifice and commitment to staying in shape over Christmas and spring break. He looks real good.

Mark Siegel

He has this Christmas party every year in New York.

He doesn't shy away from issues of importance. I think he thinks through things and presents what he feels is a legitimate Christian understanding, not that he says it's the only one.

Malaika Arora Khan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

Gary Jones

For most of them, Christmas is not a good day. For some of them, Christmas is the worst day, because they're not with their family.

For most of the 20th century, the secular perspective moved forward and was in the ascendancy. Recently however, conservative Christians have been on the offensive, recovering some of that lost ground.

Given the plethora of new and improved products that we should see this Christmas ... if there was a year to have a delay, this is it.

R. Buckminster Fuller

God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper.

I go back to when the Constitution was written by our founding fathers. We profess as a nation to be a Christian nation. Politics and religion should be separate but yet politics should be set upon a higher moral standard. The highest moral standard that we have as a nation is the Holy Bible.

Adoniram Judson

If we are interested in Christ by faith, notwithstanding our imperfections and sins, God will be our God through grace.

Philip Pullman

If the Disney Corp. wants to market this film as a great Christian story, they'll just have to tell lies about it.

David Thornton

He tried to grab them and I said, 'No, you can't. They're all full of mud and you can't take them because they're ruined, ... I told him, 'You can always get another. Christmas is coming up.'

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

I worked very hard, so I am happy. There was no Christmas, no Happy New Year for me this year. Just fishing. I was here.

I worked very hard and it paid off. No Christmas, no New Year, just fishing. This feels better than angler of the year, because I wanted to prove to others and myself that I could win.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I grew up here and you've got to do it. You look forward to this more than Christmas.

If they keep the pace they're going at right now and if Christy (Stone) gets stronger, they might be able to do it. Last year we had to start over from scratch, which was frustrating a times. But they grew better as the season went on.

If this is confirmed, it will reinforce our suspicion that the December performance was inflated by many consumers opening their wallets to treat their families and themselves at Christmas having held back their spending over much of 2005.

Gina Rodriguez

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

We knew we had this game coming up so as soon as this last game was done we got back in the weight room and tried to run. I think I had about five meals on Christmas Day, but you just got to work a little extra harder and try lose the weight after.

We left off playing pretty good, so I wasn't excited about the (Christmas) break. But we've had a couple of good days of practice this week.

We're trying to teach Kentucky youth that being an on-mission Christian is a lifestyle, not a location. So if they're venturing out of the state of Kentucky in such a great time of need from the Gulf Coast, I think that is just awesome.

Ellen G. White

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.