Morena Baccarin Quotes

In Luke, shepherds go to find Jesus. In Matthew, an unspecified number of wise men, sometimes portrayed as kings, arrive. Nativity plays usually throw all the elements together, with kings and shepherds beating a path to the stable.

I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.

During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

A Charlie Brown Christmas' is a national treasure because it delivers beautifully the central miracle of Christmas: Emmanuel - God With Us. From the wood of the manger to the wood of the cross.

I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.

I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand.

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that's where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.

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.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

I went to football training when I was five because I think my father thought he had two boys.

The birthday of Jesus

I've seen poverty up close until I was four or five.

I grew up Methodist and went to church until my parents gave up on religion when I was nine.

At a very early age and continuing throughout my life, I have marveled at the beautiful story of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I think anything that happens to you between the ages of zero to 18, and probably further on, has a lasting impact on you.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.

I used to sing in a choir when I was young. My mom forced me hardbody. I was hella young, like 5 years old.

I had a little ladybird ball in the back garden; I think I was about one. I started off early.