Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Rossetti

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

Chris Van Allsburg

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Chris Van Allsburg

At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.

Chris Pine

For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus.

November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.

Garth Brooks

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

Frederick Buechner

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

Frederick Buechner

For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.

Felicia Hemans

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour's birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?

Fanny Kemble

Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

Francis of Assisi

For it is in giving that we receive.

Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's are things you plan for, and you make sure you get your staff available,

I've got so many mixed emotions right now. I'm angry. I'm disappointed. I'm anxious, at the same time, to get out and I want to continue to play. I'm sad that I'm going to be home for Christmas.

I'm out there playing hard for them every night no matter what. It's good to get two points before Christmas.

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.

Erma Bombeck

Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

Erma Bombeck

I lost everything in the post-natal depression.

Erma Bombeck

There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

Erma Bombeck

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Henry M. Morris

Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

Henny Youngman

I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can't wait to exchange.

Helen Keller

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Helen Keller

The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Helen Keller

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

George Eliot

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

Everybody's gone. They all had a place to go for Christmas, and this is probably the first year that's ever happened. It's definitely unusual, but everybody had a relative or someone to stay with. It's a quirk of fate, I guess.

It's Christmas in May for traders. This was the wrong decision, and we're all going to pay the price for it.

Charles Dickens

It's Christmas Day! said Scrooge to himself. ""I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.

It's really has made quite a difference. The main thing is that being able to participate in the community a lot more. Over Christmas I was able to get into at least three houses, that I haven't been into for 10 years so it's been quite a dramatic change.

Tom Moody

It's pretty hectic. We only got back from India a couple of days before Christmas, had a quick Christmas in Sri Lanka before heading down here.

Consumers have tightened the purse strings and this could continue over the next few months approaching Christmas.

Consumers continued to spend right up to Christmas. Considering the post-holiday sales over the next few weeks and consumers' eagerness to purchase items they may not have received during the holidays, we expect that spending in the final days of 2004 will continue to rise.

Consumers continued to shop right up until the very last minute on Christmas Eve as seen by our spike in sales.