Quotes & Sayings About First Christmas Without Loved One

In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses. — Banana Yoshimoto

Just a little climate change. Nothing to worry about. — Bill Nye

As far as I can see, materialism is a view that has no very compelling argument in its favor and that is confronted with very powerful objections to which nothing even approaching an adequate response has been offered. The central objection, elaborated in various ways below, is that the main materialist view, quite possibly the only serious materialist view, offers no account at all of consciousness and seems incapable in principle of doing so. — Robert C. Koons

Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer. — Zibby Oneal

I love stories. I just enjoy telling stories and watching what these characters do - although writing continues to be just as hard as it always was. — Martha Grimes

I loved the first Christmas I had in England. — Blythe Danner

I come from a very big family, and I grew up in restaurants. — Gloria Votsis

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I understood when I was quite small that there were two special things about the Jews. That we'd endured for over 3,000 years despite everything that had been thrown at us, and that we had an extraordinarily dramatic story to tell. — Simon Schama

I looked at the place on my finger again. This time it really was an empty space. And silent. It was big. For the first time I faced a loss with a sense of curiosity. What would come to fill up this space? Would I make another ring? Or would I find another ring in a secondhand shop, or even in another country? Perhaps someday someone I had not even met would give me a ring because he loved me. I was thirty-five and I had never trusted life before. I had never allowed any empty spaces. I had believed that empty spaces remained empty. Life had been about hanging on to what you had and medical training had only reinforced the avoidance of loss at all costs. Anything I had ever let go of had claw marks on it. Yet this empty space had become different. It held all the excitement and anticipation of a wrapped Christmas present. — Rachel Naomi Remen

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

This is your life. If you are not who you want to be, change it! It won't be easy and it may take some time, but surround yourself with people who love and support you and go for it! No regrets! Only you dwell on your failures. Good luck and remember the inner strength you'll achieve from adopting a healthy lifestyle far supersedes anything physical. — Jamie Eason

Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way. — Philip Pullman

The creek was hers now and yet she felt nothing. It had been the longest walk of her life for no one was at the end waiting for her. She slept through winter. Missed Christmas and awoke to a New Year. She felt so lost. Until the first bluebells and ramsons colored the green-brown floor of her world. — Sarah Winman

The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him. — Richard Paul Evans

The past remains hidden in clouds of memory. — Basho Matsuo

Do you view each day as a fresh, new, unique possibility or merely a continuation of all the years you've lived? — Rasheed Ogunlaru

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. — Ludovico Ariosto