quotations about Christmas
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
GARRISON KEILLOR
Leaving Home
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W. T. ELLIS
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Cheer
Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
NORMAN W. BROOKS
"Let Every Day Be Christmas"
There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for the holidays. When I was tiny we would buy a real tree and stay up late drinking hot chocolate and finding just the right place for the special decorations. It seems like my parents gave up the magic when I figured out the Santa lie. Maybe I shouldn't have told them I knew where the presents really came from. It broke their hearts.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON
Speak
Peace on earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
HELEN STEINER RICE
attributed, Lessons of Christmas
I do like Christmas on the whole ... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But oh, it is clumsier every year.
E. M. FORSTER
Howard's End
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
STEPHEN FRY
attributed, All About Christmas
There is a time and a season for all things, as we are told, and the time and the season to decorate our firesides and homes is at Yuletide, when with holly branch and mistletoe we make our Christmas green; with flowers we make it bright and fragrant; with presents we make it bountiful, and with the spirit of peace on earth, goodwill toward men, we make life worth living.
LEE JAMES
"Holiday Decorations,", The Junior Munsey
Be merry all, be merry all,
With holly dress the festive hall;
Prepare the song, the feast, the ball,
To welcome merry Christmas.
WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER
"Christmas Carol"
And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans--and all that lives and move upon them. He has given us all green things and everything that blossoms and bears fruit and all that we quarrel about and all that we have misused--and to save us from our foolishness, from all our sins, He came down to earth and gave us Himself.
SIGRID UNDSET
Christmas and Twelfth Night
People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
OGDEN NASH
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
JANICE MAEDITERE
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas Magic
I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
"Christmas Bells"
I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.
CRAIG FERGUSON
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Dec. 20, 2011
Oh! like a wreath, let Christmas mirth
To-day encircle all the earth,
And bind the nations with the love
That Jesus brought from heaven above.
MAUD LINDSAY
"The Story of Gretchen", Mother Stories
Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
FANNY KEMBLE
Further Records, Dec. 31, 1874
Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.
GARY ALLAN
attributed, Snark! The Herald Angels Sing
Forget not Christmas.
HENRY IV
attributed, Day's Collacon
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on their journeys.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?
CONAN O'BRIEN
Conan, Dec. 7, 2011