Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gladys Taber

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.

Jerry Falwell

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Graham Greene

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

Gisele Bundchen

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Halle Berry

The day I saw my mom eating the Santa cookies on the plate was one of the most horrific days of my life.

Ian St. John

I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

Gina Gershon

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

James E. Faust

We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.

Gloria Gaither

God must have said, "I know what I'll do, I'll send my Love right down there where they are. And I'll send it as a tiny baby, so they'll have to touch it, and they'll have to hold it close."

Glenn Beck

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden in it somewhere. But when Bernard Shaw says the Christmas Day is only a conspiracy kept up by poulterers and wine merchants from strictly business motives, then he says something which is not so much false as startling and arrestingly foolish. He might as well say that the two sexes were invented by jewellers who wanted to sell wedding rings.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Howard Thurman

Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

Howard Thurman

When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: ...To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers, To make music in the heart.

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.

Ice Cube

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

He probably won't play until after Christmas. We want him to be 100 percent.

For the most part, Christmas is here and everyone is taking a well-deserved break, including Wall Street. Unless there's a significant deviation from expectations on the economic data, I'd be surprised if the market closed more than 30 points either way.

Isaac Hanson

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Isaac Hanson

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

If he could have any wish, it would be to have Christmas everyday. It fits his personality.

John Collins

If he is, it's not to meet us. Maybe he's doing some Christmas shopping.

Harry Reasoner

So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.

Harry Melling

I've also just finished filming the role of Robert Brown in 'Just William,' which is due to transmit on BBC One at Christmas.

Harry Redknapp

I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

J. K. Rowling

One can never have enough socks

Ivan Lendl

I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that.

I can't think of a better Christmas present than this. To win this in my senior season is just fantastic.

I don't think the day is the kind of day that retailers thought it would be. Christmas Eve is seldom the big day because of the fact that so many consumers ... want to be home.

I don't think these companies results have merited getting hit this hard, but investors are getting concerned with consumer spending as we move into the all-important Christmas season.

He's miserable. He wants to come back. Christmas was the hardest.

Koren Robinson

I can't describe how it feels. There was a minute there when I wasn't sure I was going to get to play in the NFL again. I feel like a kid on Christmas Day now.