Nativity Quotes

• Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Xmas, Stars

  1893 Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

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• Good luck lies in odd numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

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• Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Country, Revenge, Patriotism

  'The Liberator' 15 December 1837 Prospectus

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• No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

  Charles Lamb

  New Year, Time, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.

  John of Damascus

  Mother, Religious, Race

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• But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.

  Alan Bennett

  Men, Play, Two

  Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.570, Picador

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• In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

  Geri Halliwell

  School, Play, Littles

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• The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.

  Jay Leno

  Funny, Christmas, Wise

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

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• In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.

  Michael Tsarion

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

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• The nativity mystery “conceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Mary”, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own grace. The miracle of the existence of Jesus , his “climbing down of God” is: Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary! Here is a human being, the Virgin Mary, and as he comes from God, Jesus comes also from this human being. Born of the Virgin Mary means a human origin for God. Jesus Christ is not only truly God, he is human like every one of us. He is human without limitation. He is not only similar to us, he is like us.

  Karl Barth

  Jesus, Mean, Climbing

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• I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

  Nicole Kidman

  Baby, Jesus, School

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Oct 12, 2016

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• Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Divinity, Born Again, Describe Yourself

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• You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Death, Stars, Astrology

  'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 5, sc. 2

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• The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

  Joseph Campbell

  Winter, Night, Years

  Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press

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• True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

  Salmon P. Chase

  Men, Rights, Color

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• I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Play, Donkey

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• Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church.

  John Tesh

  Church, Needs, Stuff

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• Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

  Giannina Braschi

  Enemy, Prophecy

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

  Charles Lamb

  Marriage, New Year, Years

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17

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• When I became thoroughly acquainted with the Greek and Roman authors, I thought it incumbent upon me to do something towards the honor of the place of my nativity, and to vindicate the rhetoric of this ancient forum of our Metropolis from the aspersions of the illiterate by composing A Treatise of the Alercation of the Ancients; wherein I have demonstrated that the purity, sincerity, and simplicity of their diction is nowhere so well preserved as amongst my neighbourhood.

  John Arbuthnot

  Simplicity, Greek, Honor

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim.

  Nathalia Crane

  Moon, Shining, Age

  Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”

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• From a stupidly young age I was always involved in anything, whether it be a nativity play or little kids plays. Wherever it was, I was involved and I think it was because more than anything, I wanted to be the center of attention.

  Ed Speleers

  Kids, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

  John Milton

  Morning, Silly, Sheep

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 8

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• Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities.

  George Herbert

  Stars, Parent, Example

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.367

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