Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Ray Stannard Baker

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Tom Lehrer

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four

Robbie Fowler

If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.

N. T. Wright

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of sunlight. You light a candle in a room that's so murky that the candle, when lit, reveals just how bad things really are.

Toby Lenk

Growth has been tremendous. We expect to do about 20 times what we did last Christmas this Christmas.

Malaika Arora Khan

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

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.

Mike Young

I would have loved to have gone to England,

Shaun Edwards

I would be pretty happy to have him playing number 15 in my (England) team,

Ridley Scott

I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies,/ O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity,/ God-gifted organ voice of England,/ Milton, a name to resound for ages.

Joe Andruzzi

Oh, yeah, you want him on your side at this time of year. Of course. We love having him back there. This is New England weather. We have to be able to play in this.

Rodney Marsh

Simon has bowled really well in the series and I am sure England are going to miss him.

John Harris

Most ponds in New England are not natural bodies. They are all kind of a remainder of that industrial period.

Andy Robinson

I look forward to seeing how he fits in with the England squad.

Julio Baptista

I had options to go to England but I did not want to leave Spain , tha's why I am happy that in the end I was given this important opportunity in my careeer.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Justin Cronin

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Mike Doss

Today will be the true test, ... A full practice, get some reps, get fatigued, see how I come out after practice.

Brian Chalk

Everybody's upset. I guess they're just going to have to pump him full of poison one way or the other.

Diane Ackerman

[On gardens:] I think they're sanctuaries for the mind and spirit. ... It's easy to feel wonder-struck in a garden, especially if you cultivate delight.

Tom Turner

Garden design theory explains, or should explain, the 'What, Where, Why and How' of making gardens.

Russell Page

My pre-occupation is with the relationship between objects, whether I am dealing with woods, fields or water, rocks or trees, shrubs and plants, or groups of plants.

Rumi

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Fish

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Thomas Hood

I can't do as much as I used to, but I can still grow a little corn, tomatoes and some cucumbers in my organic garden out back.

Jill McCorkle

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

Jeff Cox

A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.

Christian Slater

The extreme always seems to make an impression.

LaVar Arrington

I love everything about being in Washington. I know I've said some things that I probably shouldn't have said out of the heat of the moment. I have regrets, but I love being a Redskin.

James Macdonald

You can't teach a person to love something. But you can get him to feel the heat of your love for something.

Mark Campbell

We're watching everyone closely, to look for signs of heat exhaustion.

Dolores Huerta

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

Anne Robinson

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Stephen Hawking

It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Neil Gaiman

I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Gena Showalter

Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?

Jay Leno

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

George Hamilton

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

Grace Napolitano

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

Celia Rivenbark

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Alanis Morissette

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.

Arthur C. Clarke

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

Elizabeth Scott

I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.

Elizabeth Scott

She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

Bob Dole

You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.

Charles Bukowski

It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.

Charles Bukowski

It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.

Sydney Smith

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

Rudy Giuliani

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.