Gift Of The Magi Quotes

#1. Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

Cameron Mathison

#2. If she ran, at least her body still had motion, even if her brain was mired under responsibility.

Lish McBride

#3. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

O. Henry

#4. The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

Felix Dennis

#5. I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

Leo Buscaglia

#6. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. She's commanding and loyal, doesn't suffer fools well or make small talk, demands loyalty, and is extremely intelligent.

Mimi Wolverton

#8. Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".

O. Henry

#9. Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Marshall Faulk

#10. Because they don't want to make choices anymore, he thought. Choices can be hard.

Brandon Sanderson

#11. The best live among us in disguise.

Louis Dudek

#12. In Phoenix, they were called illegal aliens and pegged as criminals. They were alternately viewed as American, Mexican, or neither. Now, for a moment, they were simply teenagers at a robotics competition by the ocean.

Joshua Davis

#13. I really wanted to talk to her.
I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

Peter Watts

#14. The ones that don't kill you don't count.

James S.A. Corey

#15. Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

Frances Harper

#16. Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another ... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing ... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

Philip Guston

#17. Though I never shout at Labour Members or insult them, I can never understand the psychology of some of our men who endeavoured to reason with them.

Neville Chamberlain

#18. If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

William Jennings Bryan