#claus

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man. ↗

— Patti Smith

#claus #everyone #god #help #man

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#clause #enacted #equal #equal protection #galleries

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#became #claustrophobic #exhilarating #fame #first

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental. ↗

— Julia Sweeney

#claus #come #even #face #family

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause. ↗

— Theresa May

#complex #inequality #legal #problem #solve

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind. ↗

— David Sedaris

#holidays #santa-claus #business

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. ↗

— Shirley Temple

#asked #autograph #believing #claus #department

By first believing in Santa Claus, then the Easter Bunny, then the Tooth Fairy, Rant Casey was recognizing that those myths are more than pretty stories and traditions to delight children. Or to modify behavior. Each of those three traditions asks a child to believe in the impossible in exchange for a reward. These are stepped-up tests to build a child's faith and imagination. The first test is to believe in a magical person, with toys as the reward. The second test is to trust in a magical animal, with candy as the reward. The last test is the most difficult, with the most abstract reward: To believe, trust in a flying fairy that will leave money. From a man to an animal to a fairy. From toys to candy to money. Thus, interestingly enough, transferring the magic of faith and trust from sparkling fairy-dom to clumsy, tarnished coins. From gossamer wings to nickels... dimes... and quarters. In this way, a child is stepped up to greater feats of imagination and faith as he or she matures. Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#conditioning #santa-claus #tooth-fairy #faith

To really be tortured by a song, it needs to be more than just something you don't like or don't get; it has to make your skin crawl by getting under it. Strangely, that last clause could describe provocative or daring music, as well. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#could #crawl #daring #describe #get