Stockings Quotes

71 quotes by 66 authors

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
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
Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. — Mo Rocca
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
Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth. — Martin Luther
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
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
A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay,- A cap by night, a stocking all the day. — Oliver Goldsmith
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
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
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
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
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

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