Alexander Smith - Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Marshall McLuhan - “There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”

Edward Everett Hale - Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Alexander Smith - Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.

Alexander Smith - The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

Alexander Smith - I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

Madame de Stael — Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt - If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

Elizabeth Edwards - It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

Kevin Smith - I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

Garrison Keillor - A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Dale Evans - Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.

Pliny the Elder - Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.

E. O. Wilson - Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

Jacques Yves Cousteau - The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Sarah Dessen - Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.

Christopher Lasch - The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.