Famous Quotes & Sayings

I'll split it with Fred. He just won't have Christmas presents.

Jessye Norman

I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.

His legs, his groin mainly, have been his problem and we put him through a rigorous three-month program before Christmas and he passed. So we're confident of getting a full season out of him and of him giving us flexibility up forward.

Christmas won't be a blockbuster. Retailers are concentrating on getting as much sold at full price and have managed their stock better.

Christmas spending this season is likely to outperform most analysts middling expectations.

Mark Zandi

Christmas sales are shaping up to be OK.

Christmas proved to be less difficult than people were expecting. Retailers expected a dull Christmas, so they didn't overstock and have had less discounting to do.

Christmas of this past year, 2005, was actually worse than 2004. So at that time we knew the decision was made for us. We just couldn't keep going here; we had to close.

Christmas music works. When we hear the old songs it puts us in the mood. It's all about making people feel comfortable and stay and shop.

Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.

Christmas is about giving, the holidays and family, and I could just imagine as a young person how he must have felt when that happened. We just want to try and give him something back, to leave him with a good feeling as he heads home to Calgary.

David Booth

Christmas is a big deal in our family. A regular tree from any old lot just wouldn't do.

Ellie Goulding

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.

But he proved them wrong. He woke up around Christmas, and that gave us the Christmas miracle we had been hoping for.

Charles Dickens

I am the Ghost of Christmas Present, said the Spirit. ""Look upon me!

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.

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.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

John Tesh

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

John Piper

We need a Savior. Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight.

Martin Luther

Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.

Martin Luther

Good news from heaven the angels bring, Glad tidings to the earth they sing: To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Nicholas Lea

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming.

Sloane Crosley

Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

Melanie Brown

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

Kin Hubbard

Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.

Enid Nemy

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Helen Hayes

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.

Heber J. Grant

The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.

Henry David Thoreau

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.