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Nativity
«No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
New Year
| Keywords:
Adam, date, First Date, Nativity
«You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.»
«The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.»
Author: Jay Leno
(Comedian, Host)
| Keywords:
court, Nativity, ruled, scene, Supreme Court, Three Wise Men, Virgin, Washington, Wise Men
«Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we love all other lands. The interests, rights, and liberties of American citizens are no more dear to us, than are those of the whole human race.»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
countryman, countrymen, lands, Nativity
«Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I am a stranger? / And Boaz answered and said unto her, It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore.»
«Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.»
«The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated Decembe»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
assign, date, dated, December, incarnation, Mithra, Nativity, Nativity of Christ, Persian, Persians, savior, solstice, the Incarnation, The Night of the, The Persians, winter solstice
«This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance or death.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
divinity, good luck, Nativity, odd, odd number, The Third