Christmas Time

Famous quotes containing the words christmas time, christmas and/or time:

    “Please to put a nickel,
    Please to put a dime.
    How petitions trickle
    In at Christmas time!”
    —Phyllis McGinley (1905–1978)

    ““End of tomorrow.
    Don’t try to start the car or look deeper
    Into the eternal wimpling of the sky: luster
    On luster, transparency floated onto the topmost layer
    Until the whole thing overflows like a silver
    Wedding cake or Christmas tree, in a cascade of tears.””
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,
    And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;
    Thou canst help time to furrow me with age,
    But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)