December Quotes
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Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time. (Quote by - Vinton Cerf )
God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house. (Quote by - Tom Hanks)
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet. (Quote by - Orson Pratt)
Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket. (Quote by - Andrew Carnegie)
We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show. (Quote by - Martin Milner)
I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young! (Quote by - Marc Davis)
Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom. (Quote by - William Bartram)
Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end. (Quote by - Leon Askin)
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States. (Quote by - Hideki Tojo)
When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how In this our pinching cave shall we discourse The freezing hours away? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared, Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared. (Quote by - Christopher Pearce Cranch)
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. (Quote by - Eugene McCarthy)
To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Each state in the Union is honored in the order of when it ratified the Constitution and became a part of the United States. This September it is Iowa's turn. Iowa became the 29th state to be admitted to the union on December 28, 1846. (Quote by - Leonard Boswell)
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Patience is the greatest of all virtues. (Quote by - Cato the Elder)
In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948. (Quote by - Rene Cassin)
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. (Quote by - John Shimkus)
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. (Quote by - John Keats)
As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. (Quote by - J. M. Coetzee)
I would anticipate that the Electoral College will be held on the 13th of December, and our 20 electorate votes will go to the certified winner. (Quote by - Kenneth Blackwell)
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. (Quote by - Sir Francis Bacon)
During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI. (Quote by - Sibel Edmonds)
Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic. (Quote by - Dave Eggers)
Nobody wants to see teams out of contention showcased in December and January. I'm sure this is something that will be discussed again this off-season. (Quote by - Al Michaels)
I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch. (Quote by - Jose Mourinho)
Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, my be happy. (Quote by - H.L. Menkin)
The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading. (Quote by - Merle Haggard)
December 25th has become guilt and obligation. (Quote by - Phil Donahue)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. (Quote by - Chinese proverb)
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. (Quote by - H.L. Menken)
If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York? (Quote by - Howard Koch)
I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him. (Quote by - Yoko Ono)
To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics. (Quote by - Bob Cousy)
But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age. (Quote by - Sam Donaldson)
On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. (Quote by - James Stockdale)
I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76. (Quote by - Ted Shackelford)
You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms. (Quote by - Whitey Herzog )
Wild was the day; the wintry sea Moaned sadly on New England's strand, When first the thoughtful and the free, Our fathers, trod the desert land. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
I went into rehab December 14th, 1996, and got out eight months later? Then I went into a sober living place where I stayed for three months. I've been clean for a good year and a half. (Quote by - Marc Wallice)
We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it. (Quote by - Cy Coleman)
Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse, Only the wild wind moaning Over the lonely house. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, at the western end of the Hawaiian Islands, about 1,000 miles from Pearl Harbor. (Quote by - Jack Adams)
To be sure, debates will linger about whether Medicare is too large or too small. Debates remain about the allocation of Medicare dollars. But December 8, 2003, demonstrated that there is no debate about this most fundamental fact: Medicare must survive. (Quote by - Michael Johns )
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. (Quote by - Bernice Johnson Reagon)
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life, violence and committee meetings. (Quote by - George F. Will)
On December 18, 1940, Hitler signed Directive Number 21, better known as Operation Barbarossa. (Quote by - Leopold Trepper)
A good friend can tell you in a minute what's wrong with you. He may not seem such a good friend after telling. (Quote by - Arthur Brisbane)
People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but how often they succeed. (Quote by - Thomas Edison)
The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.Paul Cellucci)
The reason it takes us from November the second to December the sixth to certify is because we have a very tedious, very comprehensive process where we audit by precinct, across the state, every vote that was cast to make sure that every vote that was legally cast is counted. (Quote by - Kenneth Blackwell)
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. (Quote by - J. M. Barrie)
I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future. (Quote by - Patty Duke)
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds to be. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? (Quote by - Theodor Geisel)
Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth; May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes, November thundering from the North. With hands upraised, as with one voice, They join their notes in grand accord; Hail to December! say they all, It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord! (Quote by - J.K. Hoyt)
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on you hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do. (Quote by - Unattributed Author)
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS. (Quote by - Ryan White)
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86. (Quote by - Eddie Campbell)
I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right? (Quote by - Catherine O'Hara)
If a man's handshake is no good all the {legal} paper in the world won't make it good. (Quote by - Richard J. Daley)
On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole. (Quote by - Mercy Otis Warren)
Living here in southern California, I'll miss hearing Rocky Top for an entire week at the end of December. I was actually looking forward to it. Tennessee has a better fight song than Nebraska. (Quote by - Al Michaels)
The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
