International Christmas Quotes & Sayings

What is patriotism but love of the good things we ate in our childhood? I have said elsewhere that the loyalty to Uncle Sam is the loyalty to doughnuts and ham and sweet potatoes and the loyalty to the German Vaterland is the loyalty to Pfannkuchen and Christmas Stollen. As for international understanding, I feel that macaroni has done more for our appreciation of Italy than Mussolini ... in food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of mankind. — Lin Yutang

All stories are lies. But good stories are lies made from light and fire. And they lift our hearts out of the dust, and out of the grave. — Mike Carey

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self. — Willa Gibbs

For comedy, timing is key. — Benjamin Stockham

When it comes to exercise, I don't like anything that's too serious. — Lindsay Ellingson

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music as if for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad. — John Coltrane

Believe in true beauty and the power of a loving smile because it can reveal the ultimate magic of life. — Debasish Mridha

I think it's such a challenge to tell a story, and I think, to be honest, the shorter, the clearer, the better. — Ashley Williams

The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things. — Walter Bagehot

Space flight participants, commonly known as space tourists, pay between $20 and $40 million each to leave Earth for 10 days or so and go to the International Space Station (ISS) via Soyuz, the compact Russian rocket that is now the only way for humans to get to the ISS. — Chris Hadfield

A lot of African wildlife is very big. If you're protecting the big stuff, you're usually protecting the small stuff, too. — Patrick Bergin

Your eyes are so deep. So calm. I want to know what you're thinking. — Tahereh Mafi

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion. — Massimiliano Gioni

Fernand," cried he, "of my hundred names I need only tell you one, to overwhelm you! But you guess it now do you not? - or, rather, you remember it? For notwithstanding all my sorrows and my tortures, I show you today a face which the happiness of revenge makes young again.. — Alexandre Dumas