A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.
As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.
Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
My dad died from pancreatic cancer at 54... I'm making sure I'm eating my vegetables and staying away from the red meat.
My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be just like your dad.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
My own back yard, and my mom and dad's back yard, is where I learned about tomatoes and weeds and daily maintenance.
My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
I don't think there's any real motivation for somebody to be a truck driver. Mine was simple; dad was a truck driver, I wanted to own one.
When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.
My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.
I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks and The Beatles and that's what my dad was into.
I can jump on to a kitchen worktop from standing, like Tigger. It was something my dad could do, and I copied it from him.
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
You've gotta be very careful that grace and politeness do not merge into a banality of behavior, where we're just nice, sort of 'death by cupcake.'
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
