Christina stepped up for us. She has been playing well throughout the holidays and has improved for us.

Christmas floozy” persona during the holidays, so she’d never really minded.

At Christmas, tea is compulsory. Relatives are optional.

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might...

We hustled well and went for every ball, but the holidays caused us to be a bit winded. We had too many turnovers in the second quarter (16) and we’re going to have to fix...

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

People think the only time the earth is renewed is in spring. I find it’s renewed around Christmastime when hard, old hearts are softened. When children’s laughter drowns out anguish. When magic transforms the dull...

The season turned out really well. Considering we were closed for a week during the holidays and it rained most of December.

every planned operation, we take cultural sensitivity and things like holidays into consideration. For the momentum of the operations to continue, the decision was made to conduct the operation this morning, fully conscious of the...

One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at...

The safest day at the Melody is St. Paddy’s,” adds another Mardi Gras girl. “All the cops are out vomiting at the parade.

Want to create the best Christmas ever? Forgive someone who doesn’t deserve your forgiveness. Hug a stranger. Pass on something that you want to keep for yourself. Spend time with the ones you love. Spend...

My specialty is actually creating an environment for people to enjoy the holidays. That’s what I love to do, … Generally there’s the technical aspect of it. ‘Do you want it to match your furniture?...

Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July. … Winding her way through the masses, trying not to get her fragile frame jostled, she realized she preferred...

If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf’s lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep...

I’m off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.

Death says a million words that the heart can’t pen.

It used to be taken for granted that you wouldn’t do layoffs during the holidays, but that hasn’t been the case for at least several years.

Christmas is about Christ. When we forget that, we lose the true magic of Christmas.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused—in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened—by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people...

Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.

Christmas is about change. It’s a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ‘Christmas’ and went to church; the Jews called it ‘Hanukkah’ and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and...

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...

Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream.Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks.There’s a steaming...

It will be important to get back out and establish ourselves. I think we’re right where we want to be right now. We’ve been working hard over the holidays and I think the girls are...

Fraudsters use current affairs to create legitimacy. The holidays are a great reason to send people e-mail to try to scam them into giving up their information.

If you want to feel the truest spirit of Christmas, go out and find someone sadder than you, lonelier than you, poorer than you … and give what you can in a smile, in time,...

Traders are just lightening their positions a little bit. The holidays are compressing the activity and I think most of the (options) rolling over you saw yesterday.

You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there’s a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes

The other houses in the neighborhood had Christmas lights up and trees visible in their windows, but not Shae’s. She and I were the only ones who didn’t care anymore, and I liked that about...

Since then his chair has been vacant, with the exception of three or four casual visits, mostly on holidays.

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale…

The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are incapable of matching. It teaches...

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine’s Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

The reason for the season is Christ. Let’s not forget that.

There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.

Christmas is our annual reminder to look up—pondering celestial stars, to look out—serving those in need, and to look down—glorifying our Lord in humble prayer.

Its not about the place we want to visit , its about with whom we visit.

Thank you,” he says.”Thank who?””I don’t know. You?””No, not me. Jesus.””Thank you, Jesus?””Yes, Toph, Jesus died for your Christmas fun.

The evidence broadly viewed continues to point to underlying improvement in labor market conditions. Seasonal adjustment of weekly data is a tricky problem and especially so around holidays.

The Gingerbread House has four walls, a roof, a door, a window, and a chimney. It is decorated with many sweet culinary delights on the outside.But on the inside there is nothing—only the bare gingerbread...

Christmas is such a time of struggle anyway, crammed with busy and hurry and the expectation that you will be joyful, no matter what. Then, if you’re like me, when you just sit quietly, just...

Holidays remind me of a happy time.

When you’re planning the perfect Christmas … the gifts, the lights, the decorations, the paries, the cards, don’t forget the most important item on the list—Christ.

I get recognised in the street, but that’s more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

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