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God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. -- James M. Barrie
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. -- Dave Eggers
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. -- William Shakespeare
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Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. -- John Shimkus
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? -- Dr. Seuss
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. -- J. M. Coetzee
December 25th has become guilt and obligation. -- Phil Donahue
December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. -- Leopold Trepper
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. -- Hideki Tojo
As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. -- Tina St. John
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. -- Yoko Ono
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. -- Vint Cerf
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December. -- Earl Weaver
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future -- Patty Duke
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house. -- Tom Hanks
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
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet -- Orson Pratt
Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play. -- Maya Angelou
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole. -- Mercy Otis Warren
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. -- William Bartram
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961 -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. -- John Keats
Forecasting Armageddon has become trendy of late, with a great deal of attention being given to an interpretation of the Mayan Calendar suggesting that Mother Earth is destined for doom in December of 2012. -- Seth Shostak
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
What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?... -- William Shakespeare
My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it. -- Thomas S. Monson
I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. -- Jamie Foxx
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. -- Donald E. Westlake
Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of terrible consequences. Christopher Hitchens didn't care about the consequences of smoking cigarettes. Tragically, he died of throat cancer in December 2011. -- Ray Comfort
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. -- Eddie Campbell
An unforgettable experience happened on December 15, 1996 when I won the Supermodel contest while still in school. I was just seventeen years old then. Winning that competition was the turning point of my life. That's how I got into modeling and later started acting. -- Bipasha Basu
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States would enter, in a formal way, what had been up to that date strictly a European conflict. Marcus Garvey's prophecy about the European scramble to maintain dominance over the whole world was now a reality. -- John Henrik Clarke
Its 75 Degrees! In December! -- Sarah Dessen
On or about December 1910, human character changed. -- Virginia Woolf
He makes a July's day short as December. -- William Shakespeare
Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics. -- Bob Cousy
I spring train in the winter, around early December... -- Jay-Z
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold! -- Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat. -- Sara Coleridge
It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready. -- Sarah Kay
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed... -- William Shakespeare
Will you love me in December as you do in May? -- Jack Kerouac
It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. -- Lois Lowry
If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? -- Howard E. Koch
If its December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? -- Howard E. Koch
Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers. -- Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. -- Alexander Pope
Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets. -- Charles Dickens
December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory. -- John J. Geddes
In December 1988, my mother died of lung cancer. I died too. I couldn't function. -- Sandra Dee
December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory... -- John Geddes
I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December. -- Claude McKay
What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere! -- William Shakespeare
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity. -- John Keats
beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The 21st of December marks the end of the time and the beginning of no-time -- Evo Morales
You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it'll carry over into January. -- Philip Rivers
Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May And hive the the trifty sweetness for December! -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. Like, this time, it's on December 25th. -- Emo Philips
December 21, 2012 represents a unique opportunity for renaissance, renewal and reinvention that people have waited for for centuries. -- Alberto Villoldo
November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree. -- Neil Sedaka
When December comes, can 'The Nutcracker' be far behind? No, it can't - not in America, anyway. -- Robert Gottlieb
When December comes, can The Nutcracker be far behind? No, it cant - not in America, anyway. -- Robert Gottlieb
A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last. -- Adam Duritz
Herat, 8 December. What a day it was! God save me from any more adventures on a drained stomach. -- Robert Byron
Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones. -- John Facenda
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. -- Matthew Goldman
It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy. -- Randall Wallace
The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December. -- Paul Cellucci
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. -- Matthew Goldman
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States -- Hideki Tojo
In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present. -- Carolyn Wells
When the New York Times revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous. -- Barton Gellman
When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous. -- Barton Gellman
I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July. -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed
True love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit. -- Thomas S. Monson
When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring. -- Andy Murray
The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
The December - January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind. -- Frederick Lenz
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. -- Mark Twain
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
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
I was born December 21, 1917, in Cologne, on the Rhine, the son of the sculptor and cabinet-maker, Viktor Boell, and his wife, Maria, nee Hermanns. -- Heinrich Boll
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December. -- James Schuyler
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. -- Vint Cerf
People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't. -- Graham Hancock
Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit. -- Allen Tate
In the suburbs it's hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December. -- Milton Berle
My daughter is almost a young lady. She's going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day-in and day-out. -- Gloria Estefan
When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams. -- Pippa Middleton
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. -- Ken Blackwell
I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says. -- Cheryl Strayed
During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI. -- Sibel Edmonds
In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1969. -- Emory Douglas
Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season. -- Al Michaels
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. -- Ken Blackwell
The nicest characters in A Week in December are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. -- Sebastian Faulks
It is more important what the jobs report shows in December and January -- that will affect how many rate hikes we'll have this spring. -- David Malpass
For fuck's sake, December! You're carrying everyone in that damn house! Someone has to carry you. I can't just watch you suffer and do nothing. -- Rebecca Yarros
The nicest characters in 'A Week in December' are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. -- Sebastian Faulks
I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It's only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better. -- Justine Larbalestier
Christopher Carson, whose renown as Kit Carson has reached almost every ear in the country was born in Madison county, Kentucky, on the 24th of December, 1809. -- John Stevens Cabot Abbott
The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May. -- John Newton
Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th. -- Roy Blount, Jr.
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last wound 30 years later, in December 1996, the month my father died. -- Clive Sinclair
My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."[The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)] -- Stephen Hawking
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future. -- Patty Duke
I don't mean to burst anyone's bubble, but there is no scriptural or historical basis for December 25th actually being the day that Jesus was born. -- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
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
You can tell a lot about someone's personality if you know his star sign -Jesus, born on 25 December, fed the five thousand, walked on water -typical Capricorn. -- Harry Hill
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
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There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December. -- William Shakespeare
Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward. -- Gary Pruitt
That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you were never there. -- Donal Ryan

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