Gingerbread Christmas Card Quotes & Sayings

The Lord called me from birth, from my mother's womb he gave me my name. — Anonymous

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves. — Pope Francis

This must be the legendary Yankee rudeness — Charlaine Harris

Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream. — Barbara Sher

Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you.
Can I trust him?
What do I have to lose? — Robin McKinley

Time would never cure it. Almost half a century later, when she was the only one of the nine Kennedy siblings still living, the author would ask Jean Kennedy Smith about her brother Bobby and his depression over Jack's death. "When did he come out of that?" she repeated, and then said, "I don't think he ever came out of that. — Robert A. Caro

Class envy is dangerous. — Jack Abramoff

Say it! No ideas but in things. — William Carlos Williams

But sometimes you just can't tell people things. Sometimes they just have to happen. Life will happen to you. Trust me, it will. No need to hurry it along. — Selena Kitt

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only way people can meet as equals, and exchange ideas. Culture then becomes primarily the voice of the oppressed and it takes over from politics as a driving force for change. — Daniel Barenboim

You know the best part of being a mom is getting that love. Honestly, you know, my son's love ... a child's love is so pure, it just makes you feel so good no matter what. — Ciara

But that's all hindsight. That evening, my mind was cloudy, and my good judgment was influenced by my need to prove something. It goes to show you, you shouldn't stay out too late during the week. — Nelson DeMille

A thankful heart, a grateful soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For since men for the most part follow in the footsteps and imitate the actions of others, and yet are unable to adhere exactly to those paths which others have taken, or attain to the virtues of those whom they would resemble, the wise man should always follow the roads that have been trodden by the great, and imitate those who have most excelled, so that if he cannot reach their perfection, he may at least acquire something of its savour. Acting in this like the skilful archer, who seeing that the object he would hit is distant, and knowing the range of his bow, takes aim much above the destined mark; not designing that his arrow should strike so high, but that flying high it may alight at the point intended. — Niccolo Machiavelli

None mourn more ostentatiously than those who most rejoice at it [a death]. — Tacitus