"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"

-- Charles Dickens

#Funny Quotes #Christmas Quotes #Home Quotes

“Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.”

Source : Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
“New York is not the centre for American culture and art that it once was because of the forces of conservatism. Giuliani, capitalism - and then there was 9/11. I really believe that if I leave, it will suffer! Maybe that's why I love it here, because I feel wanted.”
“I like acting in London-not least because it means I can go home after the show every day, rather than being on location making a film.”
“Being compared to him [Ron Francis] is pretty cool for me, but I know I am a long way away. I feel really comfortable at center, being able to roam the ice and do your thing.”
“When a tire blows, you simply accept that this is the here and now reality of your life. You've lost the tire, but that doesn't mean that you have to lose your peace and serenity. Now, serenely, begin to take the necessary steps in order the change the tire.”
“It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.”

Source : Lancet I: 464 (1904)
“We're fifteen to twenty years out of date in how we think about renewables.”
“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”

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