December 25, 2007

“When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue.
My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.”

Bessie Smith blues singer

" Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan! "

— George Bailey (James Stewart ), It's a Wonderful Life. (1946)

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark.

Dick Gregory

MAJOR HISTORICAL EVENTS OF THE
20TH CENTURY
1930

HISTORY CENTRAL

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA

Ford was the head boxing coach and assistant football coach at Yale University.

Gerald Ford 1974-1977

A very pretty thing am I, fluttering in the pale-blue sky. Delicate, fragile on the wing, indeed I am a pretty thing. What am I?

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.