Quotes About Gifts Under The Tree

#1. If you decide to war with us, you will fail and suffer an eternity of misery," he informed, his tone steady and cold. "Is that explicit enough?"
"Oh, don't be so dramatic," I said cheerfully, getting in touch with my inner smartass.

Laura Kreitzer

#2. Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

Erma Bombeck

#3. I developed acne when I was about 19, at the beginning of my modeling career. I didn't have the huge cystic-type of acne, but a lot of little bumps all over my face. They were small, but you could see them in photographs. You can't have acned skin and work as a model.

Jennifer Flavin

#4. I wouldn't say I was part of an anti-war campaign.

Robert Fisk

#5. We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.

Neil Innes

#6. A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

Betty Friedan

#7. In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands.

T.D. Jakes

#8. I had my first kiss under a tree near the school. It was with a boy named Michael who rarely spoke, but he would sometimes give me one of the cookies from his lunch. Maybe it was the gifts that made me feel special? I don't know, but when our lips touched, it felt magical.

Paula Abdul

#9. The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

Alex Winter

#10. I've done so much different stuff, people kinda go, 'Do you live in Islington?' 'Did you used to go to so and so school?' And when I say I'm an actor, they don't believe me!

David Harewood

#11. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Bill Vaughan

#12. When we want a man to do something for us, we are asking for his investment and commitment- however big/small ... Show our commitment first by doing something to add value to the relationship. Something he perceives as value.

Renee Wade

#13. You could tempt a saint into ruin.

Vivienne Lorret

#14. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.

Neil Gaiman

#15. I love if someone invites me to a restaurant, so I don't know if that's a feminist.

Carine Roitfeld

#16. The best gifts of Christmas cannot be found beneath a tree.

Judy Dawn

#17. Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning ... it's a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

Malaika Arora Khan

#18. I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Michael Palin

#19. The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Tess Gerritsen

#20. A lot of times people will say, 'Well, gosh, you're really good; you should try acting!' And I say, 'Come on! I'm thesping my little guts out over here.'

Jim Cummings

#21. Dry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies.

John Keats

#22. The term 'natural resources' confuses people. 'Natural resources' are not like a finite number of gifts under the Christmas tree. Nature is given, but resources are created.

Alex Tabarrok

#23. Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Rhys Ifans

#24. Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.

Karl Kraus

#25. The sharp thrill of seeing them [killdeer birds] reminded me of childhood happiness, gifts under the Christmas tree, perhaps, a kind of euphoria we adults manage to shut out most of the time. This is why I bird-watch, to recapture what it's like to live in this moment, right now.

Lynn Thomson

#26. Potentially the seed has a mighty tree within it. The four aspects of our nature (the physical, the mental, the emotional and the spiritual) are like seeds. They have the potential to grow into powerful gifts.

Judie Bopp