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  • The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.

  • Good luck lies in odd numbers.

    'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2
  • No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference.

    New Year   Time   Years  
    Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.17
  • You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.

    Death   Stars   Astrology  
    'Doctor Faustus' (1604) act 5, sc. 2
  • I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

    Kids   Play   Donkey  
  • 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.

    Running   Plato   Reading  
  • 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.

    Church   Needs   Stuff  
  • 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.

    1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.
  • In school nativity plays I was always the bloody little donkey, I was never Mary.

    School   Play   Littles  
  • Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!

    Summer   Children   Casts  
    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.264
  • But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want to pen their saga untrammelled by life-threatening activities like trailing round Sainsbury's, emptying the dishwasher or going to the nativity play.

    Men   Play   Two  
    Alan Bennett (2007). “Writing Home”, p.570, Picador
  • Describing yourself by your earthly nativity is carnality. Being born again, your nativity is of divinity.

  • This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

    School   Cities   Stories  
    Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.97, Canongate Books
  • Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?

    Thinking   Tears   Looks  
    William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.149
  • But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

    Men   Animal   Flames  
    1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.
  • The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.

    Book   Mean   Texas  
  • 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.

    Moon   Shining   Age  
    Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
  • My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.

    Mother   Stars   Father  
    'King Lear' (1605-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [132]
  • We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

    Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.108
  • 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.

    Funny   Christmas   Wise  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Easter   Children   Night  
  • In Celtic Ireland the name Leo was Lugh, another solar hero and mystic. In Wales he was Llew, to the Romans Lugus, to the Sumerians Lughal. Its not the same dude on walkabout, it's the Astrological sign of Leo. In the Christian iconography we have one of the Evangelists represented by a Lion. In the Nativity scenes we see 4 animals around the cradle of the Son/Sun king. One of these is also a Lion. Christians probably believe that there was one in the area and just happened to wander into the inn to take a peek at sleeping Jesus. Good thing it wasn't very hungry.

    Christian   Jesus   Kings  
  • From a stupidly young age I was always involved in anything, whether it be a nativity play or little kids plays. Wherever it was, I was involved and I think it was because more than anything, I wanted to be the center of attention.

    Kids   Thinking   Play  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I was the shepherd, so I was pulling the sheep around town, down Main Street. I thought that was the most awesome, coolest thing ever.

    FaceBook post by Chris Tomlin from Aug 21, 2016
  • On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

    Morning   Silly   Sheep  
    'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 8
  • 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

    Men   Rights   Color  
  • Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us than are those of the whole human race. Hence we can allow no appeal to patriotism, to revenge any national insult or injury.

    William Lloyd Garrison (1852). “Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...”, p.72
  • My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?’ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leap’s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. ‘Did you lie about when he was born?’ translated Mosca.

    Lying   Hair   Luck  
  • 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.

    Mother   Religious   Race  
  • Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

    "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.
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