Francis Pharcellus Church famous quotes

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Christmas #Virginia #Generosity

Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Christmas #Virginia #Santa

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Baby #Men #Tears

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Unseen #World #Wonder

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Heart #Virginia #Years

The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Children #Real #Men

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
-- Francis Pharcellus Church

#Light #Sight #Virginia

The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

God? Nope." requel's smile told me she was joking around to make this easier for me "santa clause? No again.

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.