December Quotes - Page 6

• Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a game for the cloistered elect, the tinhorn mendicants of low calorie despair. Literature is as old as speech. It grew out of human need for it, and it has not changed except to become more needed. The skalds, the bards, the writers are not separate and exclusive. From the beginning, their functions, their duties, their responsibilities have been decreed by our species. --speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1962

  John Steinbeck

  Responsibility, Games, Cities

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1250, Penguin UK

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• I've always assumed that every time a child is born, the Divine reenters the world. Okay? That's the meaning of the Christmas story. And every time that child's purity is corrupted by society, that's the meaning of the Crucifixion story. Your man Jesus stands for that child, that pure spirit, and as its surrogate, he's being born and put to death again and again, over and over, every time we inhale and exhale, not just at the vernal equinox and on the twenty-fifth of December.

  Tom Robbins

  Jesus, Children, Men

  "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, September 5, 2000.

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• Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

  Mary Boykin Chesnut

  War, History, Sitting

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• When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.

  Andy Murray

  Training, Weight, Tire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". labs.imdb.com.

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• Christmas is ... a time to mark our progress through this earthly journey. Every December we can look back and marvel at the designs of God and realize how very little we are in control of the events that shaped the past year. Then, with hearts full, look to the celebration of that silent, holy night, and all its certainty. Because of Christmas, this we know: Christ was born for us. He is love, and the plans he has for us always surpass those of our own.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Christmas, Heart, Past

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• We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Son, Years, Giving

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• The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

  James Joyce

  Food, Squares, Cooking

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.86, e-artnow

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• In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

  Jane Smiley

  Years, Experts, Known

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• It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

  Lois Lowry

  Frightened

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Japan

  "The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

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• An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dog, Sunday, White

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• Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach.

  Robert Byron

  Adventure, Stomach, Save Me

  1937 The Road to Oxiana.

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• Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Christmas, Passion, Holiday

  Mary Engelbreit (2003). “Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I started growing my hair in December '89. I was seventeen. I signed my record deal and said I ain't combing my hair no more. I don't have too.

  Busta Rhymes

  Hair, Records, Growing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Did the walls of the barn start to tremble
  With a glory they could not contain?
  Did anyone wake with the feeling
  Of peace that they could not explain?
  Oh the love must have been overwhelming
  As it warmed everyone in it's flow
  For all of the earth is still telling
  of 2000 Decembers ago.

  Joy Williams

  Faith, Wall, Inspiration

  Song: 2000 Decembers Ago

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• I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of three sons of Jeanne and Jean-Victor Pepin. Weighing only two and one half pounds, I nearly died at birth.

  Jacques Pepin

  Son, Two, Three

  Jacques Pepin (2004). “The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Pearl Harbor is a two-hour movie squeezed into three hours, about how on December 7, 1941, the Japanese staged a surprise attack on an American love triangle. Its centerpiece is 40 minutes of redundant special effects, surrounded by a love story of stunning banality. The film has been directed without grace, vision, or originality, and although you may walk out quoting lines of dialog, it will not be because you admire them.

  Roger Ebert

  Two, Grace, Vision

  "Pearl Harbor" by Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. May 25, 2001.

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• December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Unique, Opportunity, People

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• Russia, Russia - unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. So sensitive and so suspicious in the face of the wicked, civilized west. I shall always remember you slyly, touchingly, but with great shouting and confusion - pumping hot water into our sleeping car in the frosty darkness of a December morning in order that we might not know, in order that we might never realize, to how primitive a land we had come.

  George F. Kennan

  Morning, Clever, Sleep

  "George Kennan and the Dilemmas of US Foreign Policy". Book by David Allan Mayers, p. 30, 1988.

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• To be a Jew is a destiny

  Vicki Baum

  Destiny, Jew

  Vicki Baum (1931). “And Life Goes on”

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• It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

  Hugh Laurie

  Relax, Switzerland, Littles

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?

  Sarah Dessen

  Mean, Silence, Twenties

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• When I assumed command of the Pacific Fleet in 31 December, 1941; our submarines were already operating against the enemy, the only units of the Fleet that could come to grips with the Japanese for months to come. It was to the Submarine Force that I looked to carry the load until our great industrial activity could produce the weapons we so sorely needed to carry the war to the enemy. It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Honor, Enemy

  Foreword to Theodore Roscoe "United States Submarine Operations in World War II" (p. 5), June 1, 1949.

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• beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Beautiful, Sweet, Blue

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• In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!

  Carlo Collodi

  Country, Sunday, Vacation

  Carlo Collodi (2013). “The Adventures of Pinocchio”, p.229, Lulu Press, Inc

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