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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey. -- Tatiana Maslany
The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture. -- Jose Andres Puerta
It feels great seeing posters everywhere, and bus stops promoting 'Black Nativity,' and billboards in Los Angeles. It's overwhelming. I can't wait for everybody to see what I got. -- Jacob Latimore
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above all the Passion, where you can find images for every stage and every moment. -- Neil MacGregor
I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that. -- Victoria Beckham
I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus. -- Nicole Kidman
Nativity is the enemy of prophecy. -- Giannina Braschi
This Lord of natures today was transformed contrary to His nature; it is not too difficult for us to also overthrow our evil will." Hymns of the Nativity, Hymn 1:97, pg. 74 in Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns (New York: Paulist Press, 1989). -- Ephrem the Syrian
The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy. -- John of Damascus
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep. -- John Milton
Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play. -- Jim Crace
One's nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world's family. -- Paul Harris
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin. -- Jay Leno
Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings. -- Hannah Murray
Really, at a time when they're debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church. -- John Tesh
I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger. -- Jack Whitehall
There are three kinds of people in this world: 1) People who make lists, 2) People who don't make lists, and 3) People who carve tiny Nativity scenes out of pecan hulls. I'm sorry, there isn't really a third category; it's just that a workable list needs a minimum of three items, I feel. -- Mary Roach
Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer! -- William Wordsworth
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell. -- Christopher Marlowe
In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary. -- Geri Halliwell
Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity. -- Chris Oyakhilome
This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story. -- Karl Pilkington
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, The musing moon illumine pastures dim, And afterwards a new nativity For all who slept the dreamless interim. -- Nathalia Crane
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. -- William Shakespeare
Really, at a time when theyre debating when and where a nativity scene can be used, this is the kind of stuff we need to have out there - outside of the church. -- John Tesh
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. -- Charles Lamb
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights -- Salmon P. Chase
By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence. -- Jeremy Collier

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