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“This is the way the wheel turns, coming at last to full circle, with wild as well as tame at he crib; lion and turtle-dove together an barnyard beasts lying down with the fox. For wild and tame are...”
“Odd that a festival to celebrate the most austere of births should end up being all about conspicuous consumption.”
“On the day after Christmas, some store or another will always take out and ad saying there are only 364 shopping days to Christmas. No one is amused.”
“Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.”
“Perhaps I should just bury myself and become a diamond after thousands of years of intense pressure”
“When we wake, its officially Christmas Eve. Good. Because I have something special to give you. She turned over her shoulder and cocked an eyebrow. Thought you just did. He chuckled, a deep and th...”
“Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'.It might as well have said '27 DAY...”
“Of course, my Christmas is (so much more) gorgeous and romantic (than Germany's)!! And unlike the rest of the world, we leave wine behind for Santa Claus!""So Santa-san is delivering gifts to child...”
“I'm mad at global warming for all the obvious reasons, but mostly I'm mad at it for ruining Christmas. This time of year is supposed to be about teeth-chattering, cold weather that necessitates coa...”
“It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.”
“I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.”
“They rode up a trail until the trees parted and they got their first good view of Lone Peak across the valley and river. This late morning it was breathtaking. The stark peak gleamed against the de...”
“You have a drawer full of dull butter knives and an old pair of kitchen shears. You are hardly armed to the teeth.”
“To love is to give hope to even the darkest atmosphere.”
“Love is a word that can truly change any atmosphere. Love is at the very root of having a positive attitude. To love is to give hope to even the darkest atmosphere. That is why I am so much in Harr...”
“The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights boldly growing in the cold night, the only lights for miles around in the inmense darkness of the ra...”
“A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away; While quite unselfish, it grows small.”
“Oliver Marley supposed there were more dignified ways to end his life. A lifelong victim to the twin sins of an infertile imagination and pragmatism, the thought of travel simply never crossed his ...”
“All ceremony depends on symbol; and all symbols have been vulgarized and made stale by the commercial conditions of our time...Of all these faded and falsified symbols, the most melancholy example ...”
“Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.”
