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"We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."

Peter Agre on Christmas

More quotes about Christmas

  • "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."

    Calvin Coolidge on Christmas

  • "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

    Roy L. Smith on Christmas

  • "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

    George Carlin on Christmas

  • "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

    Dr. Seuss on Christmas

  • "A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

    Benjamin Franklin on Christmas

More quotes by Peter Agre

  • "We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible."

  • "Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry."

  • "The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems."

  • "Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this."

  • "My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."

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