Christmas Approaching Quotes & Sayings

So please enjoy these Tales - before a crackling fire on a chilly night, ideally, — Ransom Riggs

Wanda Bone Bouvier had that thing that makes a hound leap against its cage. It ws a quality that was partly a bonus from nature and partly learned from cheesecake calendars and Tanya Tucker albums. — Daniel Woodrell

Dreams are memories we've lost to sleep. — F.K. Preston

In the TIME ORIENTATION metaphor, an observer is located at the present, with the past behind him and the future in front, as in That's all behind us, We're looking ahead, and She has a great future in front of her. Then a metaphorical motion can be added to the scene in one of two ways. In the MOVING TIME metaphor, time is a parade that sweeps past a stationary observer: The time will come when typewriters are obsolete; The time for action has arrived; The deadline is approaching; The summer is flying by. But we also find a MOVING OBSERVER metaphor, in which the landscape of time is stationary and the observer proceeds through it: There's trouble down the road; We're coming up on Christmas; She left at nine o' clock; We passed the deadline; We're halfway through the semester. — Steven Pinker

You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a (flag) pin. Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest ... — Barack Obama

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap. — Darren Criss

The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas. — John D. Voelker

Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know. And so far will I trust thee, — Stephen Greenblatt

While science can be many things, above all it is a way for our mistake-making, illusion-prone, storytelling brains to compare different methods for describing nature. — Mike McRae

We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context. — Anthony Liccione

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. — Rosie Thomas

The thought burrowed into her heart as darkness fell. It coiled in her guts as she wedged herself amongst the boughs of a tree to sleep. And in the morning, it woke with her and clung to her back, riding on her shoulders as she climbed down, hungry and exhausted from nightmares. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Love me tender, love me sweet, never let me go. — Elvis Presley

Keep people in your life who truly love you, motivate you, and make you happy. If you know people who do none of these things, let them go. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

Less is more! I don't wear makeup if I don't have to. — Jennifer Nettles

We say, that the Constitution of the United States is a glorious standard; it is founded in the wisdom of God. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Questioning this most dearly held core of the Dutch sense of self not only is felt as a direct attack, it also means that the nonbeliever, the antiracist killjoy, is putting himself or herself above "us," which in itself again runs deeply counter to another strand in the Dutch sense of self: "gelijke monnikken, gelijke kappen" (literally, equal monks, equal cowls), which invokes the deep egalitarian strand in Dutch self-representation. Critical self-reflection, moreover and ironically, is a scarce commodity in a culture that delights in imagining itself as "nothing," "just normal" (Ramdas 1998), without specific characteristics, much less infused with deep racializations. The point of not knowing, racial ignorance, and innocence has long passed. — Gloria Wekker

A knowledge of the invisible God is revealed to us through that which is visible. The creation itself screams out the reality of the Creator. — R.C. Sproul