New Year's Day

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. Rainer Maria Rilke

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey

The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. Melody Beattie

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress. Charles Kettering

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something. Neil Gaiman

Christmas

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. Johnny Carson

What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. Phyllis Diller

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. Dave Barry

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it. Pope Francis

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. Pope Paul VI

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time. Jesus Christ

Hanukkah - December 15, 2025

A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat! Alan King

What I find fascinating about Hanukkah, the Jewish festival of lights we celebrate at this time of the year, is the way its story was transformed by time. Jonathan Sacks

The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle. Irving Greenberg

Toys

As men get older, the toys get more expensive. Marvin Davis

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. Bernard Manning

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. Joan Rivers

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. Clement Clarke Moore

December

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. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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? Dr. Seuss

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. James M. Barrie