Sugarplums Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry ... — Napoleon Bonaparte

In the garden of tabloid delight, there is always a clean towel and another song. — Lewis H. Lapham

Work is the ultimate addiction. — Marty Rubin

That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again. — Michael Johnson

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres. — Henry David Thoreau

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators. — Saint John Chrysostom

I have heard great music--even sublime music. I've heard music fit for princes, for kings. I have hard music fit for any monarch. But that night, for the first time in my life, I heard music fit for God. — J. Scott Featherstone

Imagine there are no men in life, — Gene Simmons

This world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being — Adrienne Rich

Who cared anyway? I was going to Alaska, for heaven's sake. I'd never heard of any hotties from Alaska. All I pictured were big, scruffy men in red flannels with plenty of facial hair. — Cameo Renae

I am a dreamer; I have so little real life that I look upon such moments as this now, as so rare, that I cannot help going over such moments again in my dreams. I shall be dreaming of you all night, a whole week, a whole year. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The story of his great-grandfather ... was his own story, too. — Kelly Cherry

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums. — Nancy Byrd Turner

Behind many broken friendships there is a marriage. — Pratik Akkawar

Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. — David Bohm