Quotes About Chesterton Christmas

#1. Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#2. When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. We must either leave Christ out of Christmas, or Christmas out of Christ, or we must admit, if only as we admit it in an old picture, that those holy heads are too near together for the haloes not to mingle and cross.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

G.K. Chesterton

#5. I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.

Denis Villeneuve

#6. Sometimes, when you do the music for a play, there are very clear boundaries as to what needs to be achieved. You're very much a little cog in a much bigger machine.

Richard Dawson

#7. Pretty words cannot always hide the evil that man holds inside.

Sai Marie Johnson

#8. It's called being polite; they probably didn't teach you that at home. Doesn't mean I like you or anything.

Rachel Caine

#9. I want to heal my brother, kiss his cuts and bruises and lips, and save from what's happening in my heart.

Kate Avelynn

#10. This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy mythology. Personally, of course, I believe in Santa Claus; but it is the season of forgiveness, and I will forgive others for not doing so.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#11. Validation is my main bitch.

Melissa Broder

#12. In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.

Kirk Varnedoe

#13. The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

G.K. Chesterton

#14. Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. If you're a parent, the five worst words you can say to your children are, "When I was your age ... " You were never their age. You were older in the womb.

Bill Cosby

#16. Beautiful, luscious and flowing. Atop the governor's head.

Rick Perry

#17. One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#18. What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#19. Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

John Wayne

#20. We came here for a quiet, small, informal meeting - strictly business. We find you've turned it into a circus. Well, if you're going to have a circus, you've got to have elephants and there's no two ways about it.

Robert A. Heinlein

#21. The law says if you poison the water, you'll die. The law says that if you poison the air, you'll suffer. The law says if you degrade where you live, you'll suffer ... If you don't learn that, you can only suffer. There's no discussion with this law.

Oren Lyons

#22. There is always some distortion in the re-telling of any story.

Marty Rubin