Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Sevareid

For children, Christmas is anticipation. For adults, Christmas is memory.

Eric Sevareid

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

John Irving

Ever since the Christmas of 1953, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving-Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.

Mats Sundin

At times, we kind of dipped (team conditioning) after Christmas, so this should help us as players so that we don't have to struggle with something like that in the future.

He was loading Christmas trees. It struck me how college and football is so different from grinding it out in the real world. He had stayed in touch, and I knew that he had qualified. I was proud of him. I could tell by his voice that he was excited. He said, 'Coach, I can't wait to get started.' He had missed football.

The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

Coming off Christmas practice, we looked pretty good. We've still got some work to do.

A possible explanation is that the data correction is overcorrecting the impact of the five Saturdays in December, which would explain why the data is poor when the retailers reported strong Christmas sales.

Mitch Hedberg

A severed foot is the perfect stocking stuffer.

Our duty as doctors is to treat patients. Looking back, I would have done the same thing and kept treating patients... Why didn't they shoot me while I was out? Did they have to send the parcel home? They should be ashamed,

Our expectations are that on Christmas day the court will just have a hearing. But it may hold another session in the next few days and issue a final verdict.

Francis Beaumont

Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cinnamon and cloves, / And they gave me this jolly red nose.

The mother wasn't a naturalized citizen. Her husband kept her passport, and he walked out on her. We got a wish list from them. We also took them food for a Christmas dinner. They were thrilled.

After Christmas, we won four in a row. But three of the games we had lost (on the season) were on last-second shots. Plus we had a double-overtime loss and an overtime loss. So it's not like we weren't playing well.

John Schultz

Enthusiasm for his life, enthusiasm for his job, enthusiasm to get to his family for Christmas.

DUI arrests during the Christmas holiday doubled statewide from last year. We had 1,209 statewide DUI arrests versus 622 in 2004.

Each year we try to make our park better than the last, and this year I am confidant we have accomplished just that. We have had several delays to the park opening, but it was an excellent Christmas surprise and I think people will find it was worth the wait.

Feb. 2, that's when we take the tree down. Christmas lasts until that day.

There's pretty much nobody home in the foreign brokerages now due to Christmas celebrations, and domestic institutional investors have no particular incentive to trade either.

Victor Borge

Santa Claus has the right idea: visit people once a year

Sales momentum during the Christmas holiday season in Mexico failed to live up to expectations and last year's performance.

Rather than the doom and gloom we've been hearing, the consumer hasn't packed it in, and Christmas sales will be reasonably good.

Prices are off after a big rise during Christmas and New Year. With uncertainty over the Venezuelan strike and OPEC's response, I would expect volatile trade over the next few days.

Proceeds from this event will go towards our new downtown Christmas decorations. We have picked out the decorations, this event will help pay for them.

Olaf Kolzig

Probably around Christmas time I had my mind made up that I definitely wanted to stay. So from there it took about six weeks to get it done. I'm glad we got it done before I went to Italy because when we get back there's only two weeks before the trade deadline. I'm relieved it's over.

At Thanksgiving, we got to eat inside and it was great! Our time was winding down. But we saw places being decorated with Christmas ornaments.

Oren Arnold

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

The upside in the semiconductors didn't happen. Some people were expecting it given the strong handset sales in the Christmas season.

This announcement is an early Christmas present for fans of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Frank Lautenberg

This is a Christmas package designed for delivery to the oil industry, and we have got to fight as hard as we can to stop that delivery.

This investment has been wiped out today. It's been wiped out on this Christmas Eve. We have nothing.

O. J. Simpson

They spent the time to open everything up like Christmas morning in my living room.