Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Belafonte

We Are the World ... Do They Know It's Christmas?

We played really well. We were down in numbers because it was Russian Christmas, so we had to rely on our defense and not make mistakes and all-in-all it was one of our better games.

We had Christmas twice in December. We felt blessed.

Mary Ellen Chase

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

We haven't communicated that much since Christmas. It sounds crazy, but sometimes the less we talk, the easier it is. When John emails me his messages are short and not that personal.

The president wished them a Merry Christmas and thanked them for their service to our country.

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.

Paul O'Grady

I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.

We could have a terrible Christmas, and it could be another six months before things improve,

We just didn't show any pride in the first half. I think it was us not being back in game situations yet (after Christmas break).

Patty Loveless

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Ice Cube

I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow.

People are coming earlier and earlier for their trees. Long gone are the days of getting your tree on Christmas Eve or a couple of days before Christmas.

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day

Corey Brewer

My mom gave me these earrings for Christmas.

My passion is playing, so I spend summers, Christmas, New Year's out of town all the time. It's great to be home. I got a lot of love around here.

My mom and dad are still here, so we'll have a nice Christmas dinner, lots of food, and then try to digest it the 25th and then practice the 26th.

Look for a typical Seattle Christmas, mild and rainy.

Alice Cooper

The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.

Alastair Campbell

May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.

Annie Lennox

Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.

Annie Dillard

Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.

Clarence Clemons

I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Clarence Clemons

I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

Debby Ryan

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer just loves it!

E. M. Forster

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

Donald E. Westlake

Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, jouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.

Donald E. Westlake

As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.

Dylan Thomas

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

Dale Evans

Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.

Dale Evans

Christmas my child, is love in action...When you love someone, you give to them, as God gives to us. The greatest gift He ever gave was the Person of His Son, sent to us in human form so that we might know what God the Father is really like! Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.