Christmas Cookie Exchange Quotes & Sayings

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. — James Van Allen

Wherever the Turkish hoof trods, no grass grows. — Victor Hugo

Madness is the result not of uncertainty but certainty. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I like two types of dust: pixie dust and dust from old, first edition books. — Nicholaa Spencer

We stick together, and it makes me feel a little better knowing that, even at thirty-two, Liza hasn't figured her life out yet. — Miranda Kenneally

Your calling is to serve people and humanity with this gift — Sunday Adelaja

The hacking practice is quite widespread in its own right: one NSA document indicates that the agency has succeeded in infecting at least fifty thousand individual computers with a type of malware called "Quantum Insertion." One map shows the places where such operations have been performed and the number of successful insertions: — Glenn Greenwald

Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States. — Larry Ellison

I'm very attracted to the great open spaces of the West. — David Hockney

Cautionary tales were fantastic in the '70s. — Alfonso Cuaron

Here come the hum the golden bees
Underneath full blossomed trees,
At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned. — James Russell Lowell

The world reacts very strangely to people they see on TV, and I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it. For a reporter, that's the kiss of death. — Anderson Cooper

But Christian illiteracy is only the first part of the crisis. Even more seriously, even for those who think they speak "Christian" fluently, the faith itself is often misunderstood and distorted by many to whom it is seemingly very familiar. They think they are speaking the language as it has always been understood, but what they mean by the words and concepts is so different from what these things have meant historically, that they would have trouble communicating with the very authors of the past they honor. — Marcus J. Borg

I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days. — Willie Mays

Shortness of life was a primary force in the permanence of institutions, strange though it is to say it. But it is so much easier to hold onto whatever short-term survival scheme you have, rather than risking it all on a new plan that might not work - no matter how destructive your short-term plan might be for the following generations. Let them deal with it, you know. And really, to give them their due, by the time people learned the system they were old and dying, and for the next generation it was all there, massive and entrenched and having to be learned all over again. — Kim Stanley Robinson