It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
Somehow we just don't make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.
There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?
I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.
My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War.
My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy.
My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
It is because my dad died suddenly that I became an actor. I thought, I'm going to make money doing this thing I enjoy.
I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death.
Subsisting on a diet drawn from one food group isn't healthy or gratifying. Even eating cupcakes 24/7 eventually would get old!
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.
Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
