Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

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).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

David Robertson

Remember the 'Christmas Story' movie? You can shoot your eye out?

Chris Paterson

Picking up nine points over Christmas sets us up for a crack at this title.

Denis Leary

I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, Merry f**kin' Christmas!

Barry Manilow

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Carrie Fisher

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

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...

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.

I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.

I want you to stick to him like grandma's Thanksgiving dressing on Christmas day.

Charles Dickens

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all year.

I went to Finland this Christmas, and my mom told me to make a list of things I wanted, and she fixed it all.

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.

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.

I went from having a terrible Christmas ? going through a divorce ? to having a really nice Christmas. I really had the guts to do something I've never done.

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.

It doesn't seem like we have the drive we had before the Christmas holiday.