December Quotes - Page 5

• When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Velvet, Tempest

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• I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, As busy as the elfin world can be, Clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Dawn, Frost, World

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• Deep at the bottom of the well no warmth has yet returned,
  The rain which sighs and feels so cold has dampened withered roots.
  What sort of man at such a time would come to visit the teacher?
  As this is not a time for flowers, I find I've come alone.

  Su Shi

  Teacher, Rain, Flower

  Su Shi, “Visiting The Temple Of Auspicious Fortune Alone On Winter Solstice”

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• True love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Reflection, Love Is, Years

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• It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

  Samuel Adams

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Grateful

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• Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid and the Weasley twins were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Lakes, Feet

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• Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.

  Carlos Barrios

  Writing, Names, People

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• Oh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December; Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a rain at night Nor for the red at dawn.

  Sara Teasdale

  Rain, Heart, Night

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.135, Рипол Классик

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• When Alex left for Alaska," Franz remembers, "I prayed. I asked God to keep his finger on the shoulder of that one; I told him that boy was special. But he let Alex die. So on December 26, when I learned what happened, I renounced the Lord. I withdrew my church membership and became an atheist. I decided I couldn't believe in a God who would let something that terrible happen to a boy like Alex.

  Jon Krakauer

  Atheist, Believe, Boys

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• A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hayfield and cornfield lay a frozen shroud: lanes which last night blushed full of flowers, to-day were pathless with untrodden snow; and the woods, which twelve hours since waved leafy and flagrant as groves between the tropics, now spread, waste, wild, and white as pine-forests in wintry Norway.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Flower, Night, June

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.286, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January.

  Philip Rivers

  Nfl, Want, January

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• The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Summer, Winter, Order

  "Camelot" (song) (1960)

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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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• The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

  Carl Sagan

  June, July, August

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

  William K. Stevens

  Winter, Average, Years

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• I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Winter, Doctors

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• I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, White, Jingles

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• On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

  David Suzuki

  Japan, America, Democracy

  David Suzuki (1987). “Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life”, Stoddart Pub

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• In the words of the old song, it's a long time from May to December but, you know, it's an equally long time from December to May.

  Jimmy Hill

  Song, Long, May

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• To be a Jew is a destiny

  Vicki Baum

  Destiny, Jew

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

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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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