Famous Quotes & Sayings

We could have a terrible Christmas, and it could be another six months before things improve,

We just didn't show any pride in the first half. I think it was us not being back in game situations yet (after Christmas break).

Patty Loveless

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

We have the hope that it will be before Christmas.

We were glad we got this deployment order after Christmas and got the opportunity to stay home with our families.

Ben Wallace

We had a little more energy because we were at home. It's tough to play away from home on Christmas.

Tom Izzo

We've gotten such a good system down, my managers can get a lot of stuff done. It was unbelievable around here (Sunday) night. If you open the door in that room it was Santa's elves working on Christmas Day. They were going at it. There were sparks coming out of that room. They all take some ownership.

Chad Taylor

Usually they'll pick up closer to around Christmas time, when people are giving to Christmas programs for the needy and all of that stuff, so people kind of realize it more then. But right now it's probably one of the harder times,

With the two- and three-year-old talent that I have now, it should make things interesting around Christmas.

William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

Rosecrans Baldwin

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

Paul O'Grady

I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.

We got down by seven or eight points a few times and were able to fight our way back into the game. I was very proud of how hard our kids played. I haven't seen that type of play since before Christmas Break.

Harry Belafonte

We Are the World ... Do They Know It's Christmas?

We played really well. We were down in numbers because it was Russian Christmas, so we had to rely on our defense and not make mistakes and all-in-all it was one of our better games.

We hate to take them down at the end of October, before we've had our first freeze. We have to get ready to hang the Christmas lights.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

Me, personally, I don't know exactly what Christmas feels like.

Why would someone on Christmas night come into your yard and want to thoroughly destroy Christmas for a family, I don't understand that.

I wasn't expecting a Christmas card, but maybe a phone call.

We haven't communicated that much since Christmas. It sounds crazy, but sometimes the less we talk, the easier it is. When John emails me his messages are short and not that personal.

The president wished them a Merry Christmas and thanked them for their service to our country.

Ryan Watson

Winning the Christmas tournament was great. That really seemed to spark us.

Jessie Mueller

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

We hope that they would be released as soon as possible because Christmas is approaching and I hope that they will be with their families by then. We hope that this regrettable story will have a happy end.

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?

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