Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Van Booy

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

Rush Limbaugh

No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.

A. E. van Vogt

Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

Tinashe

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

We have made a concerted effort to make sure the kids remember to have fun. We practiced Christmas Eve morning between 9 and 11 a.m. and we had some of the coaches and ex players playing a little. We want to get them back into the mode of having fun. Nobody has their heads down.

Right now, many thousands of our fellow countrymen and women are serving in faraway and often hostile lands. We'll see television coverage of them enjoying the company of their fellow service members and a special Christmas dinner in a chow hall. What they wouldn't give to be where you and your neighbors will likely be this week, sharing this season of giving at home with loved ones. Especially for them, we wish,--no, pray, "Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men.

People will be jamming the stores, trying things on, ... and developing their Christmas lists. While many (gift) decisions will not be made, the foundation for many decisions will be made.

Nobody plans to dig themselves into a financial hole, but going into Christmas 2005 many people were still paying for Christmas 2004.

Much of the recent team success comes from David and Diane knowing how to deal with kids going away and shepherding kids through the Christmas period,

Mary Quant

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.

One of us walks in here with a new knife and ... everybody thinks Christmas (happened) and everybody comes and has got to see it.

One of the signs that Christmas is here is when you see the news stories about how people are doing more shopping online this year than they did last year. Think back to the last time you didn't see that headline at the holidays. And you're going to keep seeing it.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

No one ever told me the list had expired. I've never been officially notified. All I wanted for Christmas was to become a New York City firefighter.

Logan Mankins

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

David Ervine

We desperately need a deal before Christmas, and we have to hope that President Clinton's coming heralds the end game -- because the alternative is just too terrible to contemplate.

Kourtney Kardashian

Before Christmas, I host a party for our kids and all their friends. We love to make a mess while decorating gingerbread houses.

Kourtney Kardashian

My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three pieces of clothing and had a fashion show at the end of the year, where we had to wear the clothes that we made. I took it to a whole new level; I made all my friends clothes.

Janet Napolitano

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

Charles Dickens

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

Basically, the direction they laid out is good. This Christmas will be the first big test, with products like televisions and the new Walkman. We'll see in January if they've cleared the first hurdle.

Basically, the direction they laid out is good, ... This Christmas will be the first big test, with products like televisions and the new Walkman. We'll see in January if they've cleared the first hurdle.

Because of the shift of increased spending by consumers, it's just such a critical industry right now. Christmas is proof of that. Sales of clothing and jewelry fell year over year, but consumer electronics picked up.

Because this has happened around Christmas, we haven't got it in writing yet, but we've got a program for him.

Emily King

I lost contact with coach until Christmas of my senior year. I then visited in January and made my final decision in February, which is pretty late to do that.

More Americans are waiting to the end to shop for Christmas than any other time in the last 10 years. The consumer was never excited about anything that they saw this Christmas.

Donna Williams

Monday night is going to be like Christmas. He's been waiting a long time and it's finally here.

David Ayer

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

Amar'e Stoudemire

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

Lawton Chiles

Obviously, this is not something we want to do. This is a little like taking away Christmas, ... It's so dangerous.

Obviously it's a great honor to have the track named after me, but it's great to have a track which you can go out and use every day. It really is like Christmas.

Free throw shooting was really bad. Since Christmas, we've improved a lot. We have been around 70 percent since Christmas, but tonight we were not very good from the free throw line.