Famous Quotes & Sayings

When we found out that he got hurt, we knew it would be about 6-8 weeks at the minimum, which put us right around Christmas time. He was working 1-1½ hours a day, working out trying to get the shoulder better.

Peter DeFazio

Unfortunately it was tied up into a Christmas tree package, and it was take it or leave it - and you can't leave troops out in the cold.

Edgar Guest

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

Benjamin Franklin

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

Benjamin Franklin

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Axel Munthe

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

Banksy

At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.

Diane Abbott

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

William Shakespeare

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

William Shakespeare

But like of each thing that in season grows.

Leon Redbone

There's a little Christmas in all of us, I guess. Even in me.

Mark Zandi

This suggests that the economy has largely shrugged off the ill effects of the hurricanes. Christmas will turn out better than expected.

We knew we wouldn't see the same team tonight that we saw in the Christmas tournament. The sad thing is they didn't, either.

When they wake up this Christmas Day, and they're away from home, they also can take enormous pride in being part of a really historical year.

John Waters

Being a traditionalist, I'm a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I'm already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.

We're excited. It's Christmas vacation and all we have to worry about is hockey.

Robert Osborne

I think 'Elf' is funny, with Will Ferrell. That's a great Christmas movie.

Robert Osborne

There's a lot of movies that aren't all about Christmas, or where Christmas isn't the focus, but have that spirit of Christmas in them. I love that sequence in 'Auntie Mame,' where she's in the department store, sewing at Macy's, and she doesn't know how to do anything but fill out a form as 'cash on delivery!'

Luckily, we can go six or seven deep. Our gym holds about 900. We played Lodge Grass before Christmas and it was pretty much full. I think if you want to see the game, you'll have to be there early.

Lewis is really desperate, and I'm really sorry for the families being put through this. This is going to be a strange Christmas party this year.

Tove Jansson

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

Victoria Gotti

We're just thankful having him here and to be spending Christmas together as a family. It's been seven years since John has been here.

Booth Tarkington

Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.

Jane Elliott

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

Jan Hus

Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.

Jamie Foxx

Well, the album 'Intuition' is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it's doing right now, man, it's the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know.

Jamie Foxx

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.

Elliott Abrams

You are not practicing Judaism if you celebrate Christmas.

Kevin Brownlow

I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

Chris Frantz

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too.