Quotes of: Christmas-day Keyword

I think maybe, when I was very young, I witnessed a chaste cheek kiss between the two when it was impossible to avoid. Christmas, birthdays. Dry lips. On their best married days, their communications were entirely transactional: 'We're out of milk ag...

Gone Girl

We didn’t see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn’t a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon – though I couldn’t tell you what about. And there was definitely something in the ...

Joanne Harris

To be for one day entirely at leisure is to be for one day an immortal.

Chinese

For a day, just for a day We should swim in the love bay We should celebrate peace day For a whole day, just for a day. We should think peace all the day We should walk peaceful way For a day, just for a peaceful day.

Debasish Mridha

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class ...

Knowing God

Merry Christmas," said George. "Don't go downstairs for a bit." "Why not?" said Ron. "Mum's crying again," said Fred heavily. "Percy sent back his Christmas jumper." [I guess that's a sweater, though my jury is still out on it until I get a future co...

J.K. Rowling

[in a Chinese restaurant] Waiter #1, Waiter #2, Waiter #3: [singing] Deck the harrs with boughs of horry, fa ra ra ra ra, ra ra ra ra. Chop Suey Palace Owner: No, no, not 'ra ra ra ra', 'la la la la'! Try again. Waiter #1, Waiter #2, Waiter #3: D...

A Christmas Story

[Ralphie is visiting Santa at the department store, only he can't remember what he wanted] Santa Claus: How about a nice football? Ralphie as Adult: [narrating] Football? Football? What's a football? With unconscious will my voice squeaked out 'footb...

A Christmas Story

The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.

Indian

St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, for forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's Day, if thou be fair, for forty days 'twill rain no more.

Traditional

I like pessimists. They’re always the ones who bring life jackets for the boat.

Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

Complete Poems

Everyday should be Christmas. Christ first loved us, we ought to love one another.

On Eagles Wings:Rise

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

Frostbite

Advent creates people, new people.

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.

Grace

When I leave her, I will have few regrets. But those that I have, are magnificent.

A Boyfriend Before Christmas

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Beth Henley

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

Mira Nair

I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.

Ella Henderson