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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘christmas’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I’ve always loved Christmas and that’s not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It’s always a magical time and I’m unashamed in my love for Christmas.” -Martin Freeman
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“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” -Stephen Fry
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“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
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“I can’t tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it’s like going to somebody else’s Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you’re there and you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing.” -John Cleese
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“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” -Charles Dickens
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“Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.” -Bryan White
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“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“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
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“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
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“There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.” -Jimmy Cannon
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“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
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“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.” -Richard Bach
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“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
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“There’s a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I’ll not be parting with that, nor our bed – the four-poster – I’ll be needing that to die in.” -Helen Hayes
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“I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.” -Clarence Clemons
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“Christmas makes everything twice as sad.” -Doug Coupland
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“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
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“Now I’m an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.” -Orson Welles
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“T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” -Clement Clarke Moore
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“Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in heart as well as body.” -Garry Moore
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“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
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“Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.” -Edwin Louis Cole
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“The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.” -Lionel Blue
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“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.” -Pindar
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“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
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“The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.” -Joseph Ratzinger
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“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.” -David Friedrich Strauss
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“Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity.” -Chris Van Allsburg
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“Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.” -Stephen Leacock
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“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.” -Frances Wright
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“I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it’s a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.” -Gina Gershon
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“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.” -Mary Ellen Chase
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“Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.” -Dennis Franz
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“There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.” -Ernest Istook
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“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.” -Charles Dudley Warner
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“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!” -Phyllis McGinley
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“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there’s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.” -Marcelene Cox
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“In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.” -Jeff Miller
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“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.” -Washington Irving
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“Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.” -Bing Crosby
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“Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.” -Edna Ferber
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“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” -Garrison Keillor
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“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.” -Bob Hope
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“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.” -Carrie Fisher
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“Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.” -Gary Allan
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“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” -Thomas Tusser
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“I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.” -Henny Youngman
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“Christmas is the day that holds all time together.” -Alexander Smith
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“Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.” -Ellen DeGeneres
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“That’s the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.” -Jerry Seinfeld
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“At Christmas, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it’s coming.” -Nicholas Lea
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“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
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“To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.” -E. B. White
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“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.” -Karl Rahner
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“Santa Claus has the right idea – visit people only once a year.” -Victor Borge
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“I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“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
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“He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” -Roy L. Smith
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“The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.” -George Carlin
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“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.” -Dr. Seuss
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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.” -Dale Evans
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“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“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
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“I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.” -Bernard Manning
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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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“Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.” -Freya Stark
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“What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.” -Phyllis Diller
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“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
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