#christmas

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other. ↗

— Keith Thibodeaux

#bought #buy #christmas #continued #dad

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#excellence #gift #lies #rather #than

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#christmas #christmas tree #crazy #down #eyes

One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#christmas #deathly-hallows #desire #family #joke

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand. ↗

— David Davis

#christmas #jobs #librarian #library #censorship

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#been #best #christmas #christmas day #could

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on. ↗

— Chris Frantz

#besides #christmas #dozen #got #new

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie! ↗

— John Hughes

#break #christmas #coats #dark #dirty

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. ↗

— Bernard Manning

#batteries #bought #i #included #kids

Absently, Quinn reached for the sheet to replace it over the aged mirror, but the back of his hand brushed against the cold surface and a strange shiver ran up his arm and down his spine. ~ "The Mirror ↗

— Cassie McCown

#paranormal #short-story #the-mirror #ya #age