30 Best Quotes About Christmas
'It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work,
particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your
life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those
memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the
long haul.' Caroline Kennedy
'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
'Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions
of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and
transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!' Charles Dickens
'Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious
time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his
choice.' Dave Barry
'Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas.
And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet
holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's
gift of the Christ child.' Amy Grant
'My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes
at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the
tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.' Thomas S. Monson
'The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at
Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair,
and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.' Phillips Brooks
'As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they
meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers
they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.' Clement Clarke
Moore
'We are each one on a road going toward home, but we're not
trying to get there for Christmas. We're trying to get there for eternity. We
want to arrive home safely to our loving Father in Heaven. He wants us to make
it safely there, so He has sent a guiding light for us to follow: a Savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect example.' Margaret D. Nadauld
'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.' Pope Paul VI
'Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear
night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and
wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation
of perfect love.' Lucinda Franks
'I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used
the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't
want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.' Demetri Martin
'I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of
this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used
to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.' Andrea Arnold
'Back in 1960 at Christmas time, I did work loading and
unloading boxcars for Railway Express. That was a kind of weight training that
helped me. I weighed about 160 when I started. I began to gain weight and kept
right on gaining until I reached 195 pounds.' Pete Rose
'Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say
a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas. I cling to that prayer,
which serves as a reminder that it's important to be grateful in the present
for the people you love because, well, you never know.' Catherine Hicks
'Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it
packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're
always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the
idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by
TV commercials.' Dan Savage
'Christmas morning, I'm going to open presents with my kids.
I'm going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I'm going to come
to the Staples Center and get ready to work.' Kobe Bryant
'When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a
South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and
bacon - all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different.' Maya
Angelou
'The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in
the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in
size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you
can imagine.' James Irwin
'My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my
sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for
Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the
backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the
middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.' Jimmy Fallon
'I just think that it's strong and it's important that we
recognize what the Christmas season is about; it's about the birth of our
Savior, and there's a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but
people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what
you want believe.' Joel Osteen
'I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on
Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game
on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in
the middle of our lunch.' Jose Mourinho
'I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because
it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents
for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of
my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm
gonna finish a couple of demos.'' Hunter Hayes
'Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose
spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey
over so you can fit your head in the oven.' April Winchell
'My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I
was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the
sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!'' Sophie Kinsella
'My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he
appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually
a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the
festivities began.' Christopher Fowler
'My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch
is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in
my house.' Tom Hanks
'Isn't that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of
respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much
else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love
and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.' Wayne Swan
'Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is
because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the
works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of
advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs
(Advanced Imaging Technologies).' Janet Napolitano
'For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.' James Lankford
'For the millions of Americans, like my family, who believe that there is a creator God who can be known personally, Christmas is a celebration of Jesus' offer of love and forgiveness for all people.' James Lankford