Silver Christmas Sayings

#1. I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.

Will.i.am

#2. We know that appropriators will fight these cutbacks. But by eliminating earmarks, we can stop the horse trading that grows agency budgets.

Eric Cantor

#3. Kaji's ways," Abban said. "Interpreted by corrupt Damaji to their own ends over the centuries.

Peter V. Brett

#4. Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?

Pippa Middleton

#5. When the holly's in the red
And the pine is in the green,
When the mornings all are frosty,
In a brilliant silver sheen
Then I love to go a' walking
Rambling here and there, quite slow,
Plucking greenery and berries;
Wishing for a Christmas snow

Rachel Heffington

#6. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

Meredith Willson

#7. Victory must be assured in advance. And the American public must be all for it from the outset.

Evan Thomas

#8. Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

Tove Jansson

#9. I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

Sylvia Plath

#10. The real reason Jews don't have more Hanukkah music is that, historically, American Jewish singer-songwriters were too busy making Christmas music. 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' 'Silver Bells' and 'The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting)' were all written by Jews.

Matisyahu

#11. It's hard for people to stampede when they're strutting

Steve Aylett

#12. I want to be one of the best players around in two or three years time, to be a decisive footballer.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#13. It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Audre Lorde

#14. In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.

Dana Gould