Wonderful Christmas Sayings And Quotes
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“The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother’s hand making sure I was settled in bed.”
– Paul Engle
“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
“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.”
– Phyllis Diller
“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”
– Phyllis McGinley
“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
– Pindar
“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 renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.”
– Ralph W. Sockman
“Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.”
– Renee Fleming
“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.”
– Richard Bach
“I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality – you’re told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.”
– Richard Dawkins
“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want – and their kids pay for it.”
– Richard Lamm
“Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.”
– Richard Lamm
“Even though we’re a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
– Richard Roeper
“The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.”
– Richard Roeper
“The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song ‘Christmas with You’ from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.”
– Rick Springfield
“If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It’s something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.”
– Robbie Fowler
“There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.”
– Robert Staughton Lynd
“It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.”
– Ronald Reagan
“We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.”
– Ronald Reagan
“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.”
– Roy L. Smith
“Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don’t ever really get stressed out about the food.”
– Sandra Lee
“I’ve been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.”
– Shaquille O’Neal
“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
– Shirley Temple
“Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it’s usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is ‘fairy lights,’ which we boringly refer to as ‘Christmas lights.’”
– Sloane Crosley
“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
– Stephen Fry
“Why not share with the world the way it is and tell them my feelings about my cat, and how I played with my kids, and how addicted to Christmas time I am, and the smell of pine needles and hearing my kids laugh.”
– Steven Tyler
“Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree.”
– T. S. Eliot
“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.”
– Thomas Tusser
“I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.”
– TobyMac
“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
“When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father’s guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.”
– Tony Visconti
“I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom‘s family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car – it was the late sixties – and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.”
– Tori Amos
“It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, ‘Every kid doesn’t have snow in their backyard on Christmas?’”
– Tori Spelling
“So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album, because there’s been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of ‘The Most Offensive Song Ever’ with lyrics intact.”
– Trey Parker
“Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
– Washington Irving
“Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.”
– Wendy Cope
“I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.”
– William Tecumseh Sherman
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