Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederica Mathewes-Green

Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.

With Christmas and all, it's a difficult time to be thinking about baseball, but we feel the earlier we can start planning for next season the better.

Bryan Sykes

There are several interesting questions such as was there one original 'father' Christmas or were there several different ones?

The 'Radio City Christmas Spectacular' will go on as scheduled.

The quiet Christmas Eve seems to suggest that consumers treated Saturday and Sunday as their rest days and that the savvy shopper is now back out shopping with a vengeance.

The question last Christmas was, if you put up a Web site will people come? And sure enough they came. ... Now we're in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

The only time I even entertain the tiniest element of religion is for Christmas carols.

We planned Christmas the way Sara planned Christmas.

Robert Englund

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

We have the hope that it will be before Christmas.

We were glad we got this deployment order after Christmas and got the opportunity to stay home with our families.

Time does not ease the pain. I feel that if she had been taken through natural causes, it would have been a terrible thing, but it would have been acceptable. Doing something like that, and at Christmas, is unacceptable.

We never gave up. Four, five, six quarters, whatever it takes to get in the playoffs. Yeah, we could have tanked and been home by the Christmas tree, but these guys weren't about to do that.

I wasn't expecting a Christmas card, but maybe a phone call.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

Me, personally, I don't know exactly what Christmas feels like.

Why would someone on Christmas night come into your yard and want to thoroughly destroy Christmas for a family, I don't understand that.

You'll see a few times during Christmas time $399 notebooks,

We hate to take them down at the end of October, before we've had our first freeze. We have to get ready to hang the Christmas lights.

Ben Wallace

We had a little more energy because we were at home. It's tough to play away from home on Christmas.

Tom Izzo

We've gotten such a good system down, my managers can get a lot of stuff done. It was unbelievable around here (Sunday) night. If you open the door in that room it was Santa's elves working on Christmas Day. They were going at it. There were sparks coming out of that room. They all take some ownership.

Chad Taylor

Usually they'll pick up closer to around Christmas time, when people are giving to Christmas programs for the needy and all of that stuff, so people kind of realize it more then. But right now it's probably one of the harder times,

With the two- and three-year-old talent that I have now, it should make things interesting around Christmas.

William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

Rosecrans Baldwin

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

We hope that they would be released as soon as possible because Christmas is approaching and I hope that they will be with their families by then. We hope that this regrettable story will have a happy end.

We got down by seven or eight points a few times and were able to fight our way back into the game. I was very proud of how hard our kids played. I haven't seen that type of play since before Christmas Break.