Traditional English Christmas Quotes & Sayings

Tangaloor, fire-bright
Flame-foot, farthest walker
Your hunter speaks
In need he walks
In need, but never in fear. — Tad Williams

Life's not clear like that, Sienna. It's not a collection of straight-line paths to your objectives. People don't yell out, 'Ha ha! I am betraying you!' just before they break your heart. In spite of how you're feeling, not everyone's a bad guy. — Robert J. Crane

I don't want to sit around and hope good things happen. I want to make them happen. — Drew Barrymore

The possibility of the dream is our joy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money. — Kevin Kwan

President Obama said the small drone that flew over the White House fence yesterday could be bought at any RadioShack. After hearing this, the RadioShack CEO said, 'I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.' — Conan O'Brien

Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are
and they are also indispensable to a civilized society. — George Gilder

Once upon a time there was a huge family of children; and they were terribly, terribly naughty. — Christianna Brand

Embrace the magical gift of serenity in your daily life. Nothing beats patience, humility, honesty and tranquility. — Angelica Hopes

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand years after a man called Jesus of Nazareth walked the streets of Jerusalem, 1,734 million people alive on this earth today call themselves by the ever-dividing, ever-uniting word: Christian. God is still scattering the seeds a few righteous renegades planted in a city called Antioch. Had they only known what they were starting. — Beth Moore

I was close to John simply because I liked him as a person. He liked me as a person. We spent a lot of times at one another's houses back in Liverpool. We spent a lot of time together in Germany. — Pete Best

Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse. — Rita Mae Brown

Kobe Bryant is the most talented player in the game today; he could do anything. — Alonzo Mourning

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul. — Stevie Smith