Famous Quotes & Sayings

They used my living room, my son's room, the garage and the filming sometimes lasted until 2 am. They turned my house into a Christmas wonderland. My kids, Corey and Ryan, loved it. The people were wonderful.

A lot of factors are positive for the sector, there's Christmas turnover, a stronger rand which means interest rates will remain as they are or even another cut as some people are suggesting.

A lot is riding on this Christmas season and I don't think there are great expectations for a strong season. I think there's still a lot of flux out there and there's still room for caution.

They make rugs, scarves, placemats, runners, bags, bookmarks, kitchen towels and Christmas decorations.

You've heard of 12 days of Christmas. This was 12 years of Christmas for Ryan, Ryan's friends and his family. In short, Ryan sold his office. He might as well have put a for sale sign on his office.

You never get too rich or too famous to enjoy receiving a present. It's like Christmas all year long for some of these celebrities.

This is Christmas for vets and medical doctors to actually get inside an animal.

This is better than any Christmas I've ever experienced.

They are still facing hard times in Australia, New Zealand is showing signs of improvement but I think the market will wait to see how they perform during the Christmas season.

Scott Gomez

You don't want to be home for Christmas, let's put it that way.

There was not a nicer, friendlier person. He (Barnes) would hold a Christmas party put on by him and his staff that everyone in the courthouse would go to.

There were 55 winners of prizes valued up to $1 million in Lotto's Christmas promotion, 27 Winning Wheel winners, averaging $200,000 per win, including two players who spun and won $1 million each.

Chauncey Billups

It's just another game, really. I mean, it's Christmas and that's a little more fun, playing a big game on TV. Other than that, it's early. I just want to be playing that team in June.

It's just too close to everything. You have Christmas, New Year's, and then a couple weeks later there's this trip in toll, it's just a financial hardship.

It's a sad day when the Radio City Christmas show doesn't go on with its live orchestra. People don't pay up to $250 to hear a tape recorder.

Gary Johnson

It's a reward for the Christmas matches. It will be nice to have a few days with the sun on our backs.

Andrew Flintoff

It's a tough tour. We had a taste of the sub-continent before Christmas and going to India now, they are a formidable side, we know it's going to be hard, but for the past few weeks we've trained hard and I'm looking forward to going.

Carlos Fuentes

It was close to being ready around Christmas break. Then we started looking for the first big invitational to throw it, but we always had to look at the team score. It was hard to fit it in at the right time.

It was Christmas, and on Christmas gentile Hungarians tend to stay home with their families. I'd say that 80 percent of the crowd was Jewish.

J. J. Johnson

It was between Christmas and New Years. The teams gathered together in Kansas City and played the tournament.

Macaulay Culkin

It was for one of his last Christmas specials. I remember I went to his hotel room to rehearse with him, and he was zoned out on medication or something, and I'm thinking, How is this going to happen?

It was a lucky escape: a promise made at a Christmas party is still a promise.

Hal Borland

[The Christmas story] is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. SA simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.

Gordon B. Hinckley

There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.

Gladys Taber

Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

Gladys Taber

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.

Gladys Taber

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Jerry Falwell

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Ethel Merman

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

Ernest Istook

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.