Top 16 Quotes About Christmas Away From Family
#1. Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
Ellen Hopkins
#2. Vin isn't ... like other women."
Tindwyl raised an eyebrow, her voice softening slightly.
"I think that the more women you come to know, Your Majesty, the more you'll find that statement applies to all of them.
Brandon Sanderson
#3. During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.
Monica Johnson
#4. a family will visit constantly, daily or even twice a day. Then maybe every other day. Then just weekends. After months or years, the visits taper off, until it's just, say, birthdays and Christmas. Eventually, most families move away, as far as they can get.
Paul Kalanithi
#5. The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
Paddy Chayefsky
#6. Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire
#8. Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.
Lord Acton
#9. Whenever a reasonable explanation comes to sight as to why a thing appears to be but is not true, this makes for greater trust in the truth.
Aristotle.
#10. This is fellowship: sharing with one another what God is teaching through the Scriptures, and this is an important part of true community.
Jerry Bridges
#11. He was being mighty chary with my money. Now that I was so rich, I could fling open the windows and doors and set the thermostat on forty, if I wanted to do something so foolish and wasteful.
Charlaine Harris
#12. Have it your way, then. Pretend you don't hear your own voice inside the din. Pretend its not telling you things you don't want to know. Pretend that your deepest, most secret wish isn't that someone would love you like you know Malick can, if you let him.
Carole Cummings
#13. We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within
Colette Dowling
#14. Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).
Lauren Oliver
#15. I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.
Alexi Lalas
#16. Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.
Ellen Glasgow
