Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Taylor

During the Christmas season online retailers ship two or three times what they would normally do.

Britt Beemer

The success of GM's employee discount sale is a great example that consumers still are in a mood to buy. However, I think Christmas spending could be a little narrower than last year.

Calvin Coolidge

To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world." ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), American president. Presidential message (December 25, 1927).

Bonnie Hammer

We kind of own - and started - the trend of doing a special event in December. It's great escapism, and people are home and getting tired of the Christmas movies. It's perfect.

Matt Painter

There is no question we would like more than one day to prepare for Memphis. But we were stuck with the start of the Big Ten and with the Christmas holidays.

Michael Miles

We will be open late on Christmas Eve as well. And... the post office will be delivering on Christmas Day.

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.

Dwight L. Moody

Jesus came from heaven down to earth. He left all grandeur behind Him, He passed by palaces and thrones-to be born in a manger! He was born lowly, that He might raise men up to God. The poor have a friend in Jesus. If no one else loves them, He loves them. He came to give them liberty, to proclaim to them the gospel of God's grace.

Matt Johnson

As brothers go, I'd say that if we weren't twins, then we were pretty much damn near close.

Denis McDonough

As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest.

Abu Sabaya

The Muslims are our brothers . . . I am not saying we have no contact with them.

Drew Goddard

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

Bob Carnes

I've been lucky these days to have my brother Skip come up and run the company while I do the hard part, which is the fishing.

Brown Johnson

I used to run around singing my life to myself. I'd be singing 'I'm going to fall down,' singing about what I was having for lunch, about how mean my brothers were.

Tom Maurer

I used to work in Gary Indiana. I was a life guard, the brothers and the sister would all come down to the pool but the grease from hair goes everywhere and they can't swim.

Kate Bronfenbrenner

This is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, which is not a subversive group.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

Andrea Hirata

I am the only one who is not married among my siblings.

Amy Adams

I always saw myself as more of a watcher, although I suppose my siblings might have a different viewpoint on it.

Anna Quindlen

I don't understand how people learn to live in the world if they haven't had siblings. Everything I learned about negotiation, territoriality, coexistence, dislike, inbred differences and love despite knowledge I learned from my four younger siblings ...

Stacey King

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.

Richelle Mead

I hoped Lissa remained the only one with a surprise sibling.

Ronan Farrow

I had siblings from South Asia, from East Asia, from depressed communities around America, and you know, we'd have long conversations.

Rick Riordan

Sometimes she teased me that she’d eventually catch up to me in age and be my older sibling. Looking at her now, with that determined glint in her eyes and the confidence in her voice, I could almost believe her

Julia Roberts

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.