Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berkeley Breathed

Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...

Benjamin Rush

I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.

Benjamin Rush

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

Benjamin Rush

I grant this mode of secluding boys from the intercourse of private families has a tendency to make them scholars, but our business is to make them men, citizens, and Christians. The vices of young people are generally learned from each other. The vices of adults seldom infect them. By separating them from each other, therefore, in their hours of relaxation from study, we secure their morals from a principal source of corruption, while we improve their manners by subjecting them to those restraints which the difference of age and sex naturally produce in private families.

Ashley Tisdale

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

Art Alexakis

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

Anton Rubinstein

Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

Bill Vaughan

The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Bill Vaughan

Sir, I may not have been always a Christian, but I am very sure that I have been a gentleman.

Bill Hicks

I think it's interesting how people act on their beliefs. A lot of Christians, for instance, wear crosses around their necks. Nice sentiment, but do you think when Jesus comes back, he's really going to want to look at a cross?

I think they are being appropriately conservative about Christmas because it's November 1.

Eduardo Ermita

It is a tradition during the Christmas and New Year holidays and we found it necessary because of the inner feelings of our people,

January's UK retail sales figures confirm the evidence from the surveys that the pick-up in spending growth over Christmas was short-lived.

Richard Hastings

January is not just clearance month anymore. It's winter-season full-price selling, because Christmas and holiday merchandising is really promotional. These days, that's when you see the really deep discounts.

J.C. Penney will probably be the most promotional store this year, similar to last year, and they'll probably have a good Christmas because of it.

Jews have long experience with Christians who have tried to help us in putting our Judaism behind us.

Steve Harmison

Jesus Christ would be quite interesting, but Bart Simpson would be brilliant.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Jesus Christ is infinitely more than a great teacher and philosopher.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Corey Brewer

My mom gave me these earrings for Christmas.

My passion is playing, so I spend summers, Christmas, New Year's out of town all the time. It's great to be home. I got a lot of love around here.

My mom and dad are still here, so we'll have a nice Christmas dinner, lots of food, and then try to digest it the 25th and then practice the 26th.

Look for a typical Seattle Christmas, mild and rainy.

Michelle Huneven

My mother cooked her last Christmas standing rib roast in 1987 and died a few weeks afterward.

Harry Redknapp

I won't even eat my Christmas dinner. I'm going to be the most miserable person you've ever seen.

I think Christmas will be a very exciting time. The stars are in alignment.

Jerome Bettis

It'd be nice but it's not necessary. I started in so many, that's not critical. It wasn't on my Christmas list.

Pavel Datsyuk

I thought it was a Christmas present from Santa, a Russian Santa.

Aidan Quinn

It is Daniel trying to think 'WWCD' -- what would Christ do. What would Christ say?

I think they were hungry because the loss at the Christmas tournament. Now it plays out that February 10th is a showdown with that game meaning something.

Jeffrey Pierce

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.

Jose Lopez

It is kind of like Christmas in August.