Yule Quotes

• Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

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  Marianne Moore

  Christmas   Fire   Yule  

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.228, Penguin

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• Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.

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  Francis Spellman

  Cheer   Children   Home  

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• I didnt know there were so many ways you could walk down stairs until the day we filmed Hermiones entrance into the Yule Ball Hall.

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  Emma Watson

  Yule   Way   Balls  

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• Martha Stewart denied allegations that she had been given inside information to sell 4,000 shares of a stock in a biotech firm. Stewart then showed her audience how to make a festive, quick-burning yule log out of freshly-shredded financial documents.

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  Dennis Miller

  Yule   Burning   Information  

  "Experts: Stewart's Downfall Is in the Details". www.foxnews.com. March 5, 2004.

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• Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and the Yule log crackles with orange and crimson sparks. There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers. There’s a friend seated across from you in the cozy chair, warming your heart. There is mystery unfolding.

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  Vera Nazarian

  Christmas   Dream   Healing  

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• I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.

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  Jeremy Irons

  Brother   Years   Yule  

  "Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award-Winning Actor". The Academy of Achievemnt Interview, www.achievement.org. October 27, 2000.

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• The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

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  Samuel L. Jackson

  Spring   Winter   Years  

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