Stockings Quotes
71 quotes by 66 authors
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There's something brave and touching about game girls of all ages keeping themselves smart in hard times - one thinks of those wonderful women during…
— Julie Burchill
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
— Mo Rocca
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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…
— Al Smith
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.
— Jonathan Swift
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb. You know the ones:…
— Janet Fitch
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Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles…
— Geoffrey Perret
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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
— Martin Luther
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Whether I'm a Super Bowl Champion or a regular guy stocking groceries at the Hy-Vee, sharing my faith and glorifying Jesus is the central focus…
— Kurt Warner
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and…
— Cole Porter
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A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I…
— Astley Cooper
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Pick a better verb. Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an A-bomb.
— Janet Fitch
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What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long…
— Gilbert Sorrentino
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From the baking aisle to the post office line to the wrapping paper bin in the attic, women populate every dark corner of Christmas. Who…
— Rachel Held Evans
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All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first…
— Maya Angelou
Who Wrote These Stockings Quotes
66 authors contributed a total of 71 Stockings Quotes, led by these top contributors: