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Nativity Quotes

We’ve collected the best Nativity Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Jack Whitehall, James Lankford, Millie Bobby Brown, Nicole Kidman, Jose Andres. Use them as an inspiration.

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I acted at school but got very bad parts – things that they’d made up in Shakespeare plays like ‘Guard 17′ – so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
Jack Whitehall
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As we see thousands of public and private Christmas trees and nativity displays around the country, they remind us again of the powerful American value built into our Constitution: our freedom of religion.
James Lankford
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I didn’t do school plays… I’ve never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.
Millie Bobby Brown
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I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn’t get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn’t get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.
Nicole Kidman
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The Christmas market at the Barcelona Cathedral sells all kinds of things for your Nativity scene. It will also give you a good idea of Catalan culture.
Jose Andres
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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.
Jay Leno
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In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, ‘I could do that role so much better!’ From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Baron Vaughn
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My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else‘s lines to ask if she liked my costume. I’ve learnt not to do that now.
Emily Berrington
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
Tatiana Maslany
10
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.
Hannah Murray
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I have been inspired by world cinema in different ways. But no, ‘Raja The Great’ is not a copy. It’s not based on any film. You will see a lot of Telugu nativity, moreover.
Anil Ravipudi
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One’s nativity is not of his own choosing, but whatever it may be, it is entitled to respect; and all nations have honorable place in the world’s family.
Paul P. Harris
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I’ve got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there’s a parents‘ night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
Victoria Beckham
14
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above all the Passion, where you can find images for every stage and every moment.
Neil MacGregor
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I went to Bethlehem in Christmas 2015 to do a television show for German TV and we filmed in the Church of the Nativity, literally above the place where Christ was born.
Chris de Burgh
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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.
Alice Roberts
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I played Mary at the age of seven in my first nativity play, and I loved it – there is something so fascinating about embodying someone else.
Florence Pugh
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My biggest fear in life is living Nativity scenes. I hide in cars and drive around looking at them. Something about it is really scary to me. What parent would put their child in there with mules and camels and straw?
John Waters