Edna Jaques quotes

“There'll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down... there'll be Christmas and love.”
-- Edna Jaques

#Christmas Quotes #Stars Quotes #Night Quotes

“Go out, go out I beg of you And taste the beauty of the wild. Behold the miracle of the earth With all the wonder of a child.”
-- Edna Jaques

#Nature Quotes #Children Quotes #Miracle Quotes

“Not for the mighty world. O Lord, tonight, Nations and kingdoms in their fearful might--Let me be glad the kettle gently sings, Let me be grateful for little things.”
-- Edna Jaques

#Grateful Quotes #Tonight Quotes #World Quotes

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1920). “Collected Poems”

“God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.”

“People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.”

“I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.”

“You know what shows today are missing? Stars.”

“Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“Fling out, fling out, with cheer and shout, To all the winds of Our Country's Banner! Be every bar, and every star, Displayed in full and glorious manner! Blow, zephyrs, blow, keep the dear ensign flying! Blow, zephyrs, sweetly mournful, sighing, sighing, sighing!”

Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”

“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”