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When I came out of surgery, I was on a respirator and had a tube in my left lung. I spent Christmas and the next thirty days in the hospital.

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.

My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.

My grade 3 teacher put on a kids' Christmas concert, and I played the kazoo, so my mother bought me a trumpet. I took lessons for eight years, was in the Kitsilano Boys Band, and I played in the Vancouver Junior Symphony for two years.

Luckily, we can go six or seven deep. Our gym holds about 900. We played Lodge Grass before Christmas and it was pretty much full. I think if you want to see the game, you'll have to be there early.

Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.

One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

One of us walks in here with a new knife and ... everybody thinks Christmas (happened) and everybody comes and has got to see it.

One thing that shocked me was that the number of consumers planning to buy gift cards this Christmas is not as big as last year.

One year, President Nazarbayev was at the Christmas party, and in his toast, he talked about Nazarbayev as a forward-looking leader, as someone who's going to bring democracy to Kazakhstan. And there were tears in his eyes. He's a true believer.

No one ever told me the list had expired. I've never been officially notified. All I wanted for Christmas was to become a New York City firefighter.

One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.

One of the signs that Christmas is here is when you see the news stories about how people are doing more shopping online this year than they did last year. Think back to the last time you didn't see that headline at the holidays. And you're going to keep seeing it.

Monday night is going to be like Christmas. He's been waiting a long time and it's finally here.

More than five million Texans are expected to travel for the Christmas-New Year's holiday, with the majority of those travelers driving to their destination. In an effort to keep the roadways safe, we encourage partygoers to act responsibly by buckling up and having a designated driver or to utilize our Tipsy Tow service.

More Americans are waiting to the end to shop for Christmas than any other time in the last 10 years. The consumer was never excited about anything that they saw this Christmas.

No one had seen anything like it; every time England took another Australian wicket, the switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree. By the end of the day another 7,000 had been sold.

Of course I thought about leaving. I asked myself a lot of questions at Christmas time.

My dad started me in wrestling. I have been around (wrestling) my whole life. I was born around Christmas and my dad had me in the wrestling room in mid-January.

Online retailers continue to re-create the offline world on the Internet. People come out to the stores the day after Christmas looking for bargains. Now a natural part of shopping is to first poke around online. Some shoppers might see bargains online and decide they don't have to fight the crowds in the malls.

My dad likes to recite the story of 'Pablo the Donkey' before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it's the same; every year, we cringe!

My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

My family know not to get me any tech for Christmas. I can never get it to work, and it all becomes very tearful and pressurised.

Post-Christmas economic statistics have been inconclusive, with those from the retail and manufacturing sectors on the negative side, while house prices are showing signs of improvement. Therefore, despite earlier hopes of a cut this time, a no-change decision was widely expected. However, we firmly believe the trend is still downwards and therefore this is a cut 'deferred', not a change of heart.

No. I bought her something at Christmas time, but I didn't give it to her.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit.

Obviously, the period from Thanksgiving to Christmas is a very busy period for us. We generally do in the corporate sales aspect of out business 25 percent of our business in November or December.

Nunez hurt it in Missouri, and the pain went all the way down to her back. From there she hurt it again in Texas, and Christmas night she was in a car accident. That didn't help her at all.

People will be jamming the stores, trying things on, ... and developing their Christmas lists. While many (gift) decisions will not be made, the foundation for many decisions will be made.

Obviously it's a great honor to have the track named after me, but it's great to have a track which you can go out and use every day. It really is like Christmas.

Obviously, this is not something we want to do. This is a little like taking away Christmas, ... It's so dangerous.

Right between the championship game and Christmas break he took his visit to the Air Force Academy. I felt like at that point he was really impressed with them and liked them a lot.

Right now, it's disappointing. Hopefully, when you look back on it -- we were conference champions, district champions, Farmington Invitational champions and Christmas tournament champions -- it was a good year.

Right now, many thousands of our fellow countrymen and women are serving in faraway and often hostile lands. We'll see television coverage of them enjoying the company of their fellow service members and a special Christmas dinner in a chow hall. What they wouldn't give to be where you and your neighbors will likely be this week, sharing this season of giving at home with loved ones. Especially for them, we wish,--no, pray, "Peace on Earth, goodwill toward men.

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.

My feeling is that these attacks on him are going to subside by the (end of the year), and my surprise is that the Clintons will enjoy Christmas 1997 with the highest popularity rating of any president since the 1950's,

I have been waiting for Sean to come back every week, it is like putting Christmas back.

I have had a big problem with my back since Christmas. Doctors gave me some infusions but it did not help me a lot. I started with special exercises but doctors do not recommend a long flight.

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.

I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. It was the only instrument that fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into drums when I was six and then started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

I got two Christmas cards - one from a family member and one from him.

I'd like to work with someone like Chevy Chase because he's one of my idols who I grew up watching like "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation".

I don't go back home to Sardinia as much as I would like, just for Christmas and family events.

I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling.

If this is confirmed, it will reinforce our suspicion that the December performance was inflated by many consumers opening their wallets to treat their families and themselves at Christmas having held back their spending over much of 2005.

I grew up here and you've got to do it. You look forward to this more than Christmas.

Last year, (the team) went with her for a long stretch just after Christmas.

Lots of people were activating phones under the Christmas tree.

When trash builds up in front, hopefully they'll be understanding, ... But this isn't like Christmas presents, where you hand them out and forget about them the rest of the year.

We're completely overjoyed by the news. In fact, there's a good possibility that we'll have a Christmas baby.

We're excited. It's Christmas vacation and all we have to worry about is hockey.

We're glad with the way this is turning out and we hope kids walk away from this with a visual presentation of Christmas and that it's the birth of Christ,

Lewis is really desperate, and I'm really sorry for the families being put through this. This is going to be a strange Christmas party this year.

Much of the recent team success comes from David and Diane knowing how to deal with kids going away and shepherding kids through the Christmas period,

Mom still has a huge, beautifully decorated Christmas tree. The whole family comes together after midnight mass and has the traditional plum cake and wine. We spend the night at mom's home, and in the morning we wake up and open the presents. In the afternoon, we sit down to have a traditional Christmas lunch.

Since mid-2005 there have been concrete signs that the consumer is bouncing back and there is evidence from individual retailers as well as the key surveys that the critical Christmas period saw very robust retail spending.

Most people assumed that spring 2006 was for a domestic Japanese launch and historically Europe has always been the last to receive Japanese technology. I think it is actually good news that we are attempting a simultaneous launch so people don't resent the fact that other territories have it first. I think people have been positively surprised that it will be out before Christmas.

Most of us remember Nat King Cole as a vocalist. His warm, grainy baritone is still so closely identified with such familiar ballads as 'Stardust' and 'The Christmas Song' that it's hard to imagine anyone else performing them.

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,The gladness of Christmas give you hope,The warmth of Christmas grant you love.

Most of the time I worked full time at the fairgrounds, then I went straight into Christmas Love.

She punished him by filling the bathtub with scalding water and submerging him in it. After she inflicted these serious, serious burns on him, she turned him back over to his grandmother. The grandmother took him home on Christmas Day and kept him for a week, allowing him to suffer and gradually die.

Making the minimum payment ... is probably one of the biggest expenses any consumer can make, ... You can end up paying for this Christmas for years to come.

Many may ask how can we celebrate Christmas and be cheerful with the wall imprisoning us.

So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black tee shirts?

Since Christmas, Lindsey is probably averaging 15 points per game. She's really strong on the boards. We had to continue to attack the basket.

Since Christmas, there has been a 14 cent increase locally in crude oil prices. At this point it looks like the prices will continue to rise.

She's knackered. All these Christmas parties have taken their toll.

She wanted to go to church that morning. And she'd put her great granddaughters Christmas gifts in the car. And I guess she'd already grabbed her purse and everything. She told me she turned the car around, and it just burst into flames.

She was kind of the question mark. She decided she missed it, so she came to me right after Christmas, and said she wanted to play.

She was a pretty happy young lady. She responded to it a little bit like an early Christmas gift. It's always nice to be able to give somebody nice news.

We were coming off Christmas break and I knew we'd be rusty. Our defense could have been better. That's what hurt us. Usually at the end of the game is when our defense picks up, but we were having to play catch-up.

When they wake up this Christmas Day, and they're away from home, they also can take enormous pride in being part of a really historical year.

This is Christmas – the season of perpetual hope.

God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

I have a wrapping fetish, and so I always come out the day after Christmas so I can stock up for next year.

I was like a kid on Christmas morning.

Halloween is now approaching the Christmas holiday season as the biggest season for retailers.

Given the developments of yesterday and the reactions of Duceppe and Harper we certainly have to be ready for a Christmas election, depending on what Jack Layton does.

Growth has been tremendous. We expect to do about 20 times what we did last Christmas this Christmas.

I can't even imagine not observing Christmas in an Episcopal (Anglican) Church.

I can't go anywhere until I finish this Christmas album, ... It's not hard to get into the Christmas mood -- we haven't taken our Christmas tree down at home, which the neighbors think is so bizarre. And it is. But this is a jazz Christmas album, so I don't have to be too traditional or mind too many rules. That's what's pulling me along.

Free throw shooting was really bad. Since Christmas, we've improved a lot. We have been around 70 percent since Christmas, but tonight we were not very good from the free throw line.

From a latest and greatest perspective, some customers might be feeling bah humbug about their Christmas purchases.

If Christmas is to mean anything, it must reinforce in us our duty to each other.

Given the plethora of new and improved products that we should see this Christmas ... if there was a year to have a delay, this is it.

For most of them, Christmas is not a good day. For some of them, Christmas is the worst day, because they're not with their family.

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry.

If anecdotal sector estimates about a very poor Christmas shopping season prove correct, the Bank of England will have to pull the stops out again for lower rates.

I get very unsettled by the mess of Christmas. I find the decorations a little bit hard, as my desire for everything to match is never fully satisfied.

God Bless John Kerry. He just cinched this whole nomination. With Senator Kerry, it is Christmas every day.

I have a 13-year-old son, so we were up early Christmas morning. We had already finished opening presents when they called. When a dog is hurting, I want to help.

I had to throw a team together at Christmas.

Certainly President and Mrs. Bush, because of their faith, celebrate Christmas. Their cards in recent years have included best wishes for a holiday season, rather than Christmas wishes, because they are sent to people of all faiths.

Based upon how we've seen retail stocks perform, any continued low (consumer confidence) number puts a crimp in the Christmas spending story.

I don't care who you are or what business you are in, you don't give a guy his pink slip and make it get there when's standing in front of his Christmas tree taking a family photo with his child in his hands.

I feel we're going to have a very slow spending season this Christmas.

I felt like since Christmas we've played very good offensively, shooting about 50 percent, and we've been focusing on getting our defense back to where it belongs and having Phil back tonight certainly helped give us good balance.

Business died for a few days, you've got a ton of inventory, so what do you do? You turn lemons into lemonade and make the week after Christmas more important with super sales and promotions.