All Quotes

Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.
‐‐ Blake Lively

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
‐‐ David Cameron

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

Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
‐‐ Gladys Taber

Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in. Clearly, Christ is in the name of the holiday, so there should be a belief in Him.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.
‐‐ James Lankford

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
‐‐ Jimmy Cannon

Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
‐‐ Samantha Isler

Christmas is a rare occasion when we are reminded that we have obligations to people we did not choose to be related to, and that love is not just a spontaneous feeling but something we sometimes really have to work at, with people we may not even much like.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
‐‐ J. C. Ryle

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
‐‐ Mo Rocca

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.
‐‐ Jay Parini

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.
‐‐ Katharine McPhee

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 a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
‐‐ B. C. Forbes

Christmas is always the most fun. I start looking forward to Christmas before it's even summertime.
‐‐ Mariah Carey

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
‐‐ Charles M. Schulz

Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspired it, hoping for a white one, to wrapping presents. But mostly I love having family and friends gathered, and sharing traditions.
‐‐ Ellen Hopkins

Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.
‐‐ Jay Parini

Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.
‐‐ Pope Francis

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

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

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
‐‐ Freya Stark

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
‐‐ Garry Moore

Christmas is over and Business is Business.
‐‐ Franklin Pierce Adams

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
‐‐ Carol Ann Duffy

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
‐‐ John Clayton

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
‐‐ Alexander Smith

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God's perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

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

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
‐‐ Edna Ferber

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
‐‐ Mira Nair

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
‐‐ Bryan White

Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some extent, but I married into a family that celebrated Christmas in a big way. And my wife always made a big thing of Christmas for the children. We have five children, and we had a terrific time at Christmas.
‐‐ Billy Graham

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

Christmas movies, it's a hard thing to do. The danger is you just end up with a Hollywood star with a Santa beard. You risk it being fake and cheesy and not real.
‐‐ Peter Baynham

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
‐‐ Dale Evans

Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them.
‐‐ Sylvie Meis

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

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused - in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened - by the recurrence of Christmas.
‐‐ Charles Dickens

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
‐‐ Stephen Fry

Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.
‐‐ Cameron Mathison

Christmas was the one time of year when my brothers surfaced at home, when my parents and grandparents congregated to eat my mother's roast turkey.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
‐‐ Norman Vincent Peale

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
‐‐ James Joyce

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have been wearing blue and white shirts.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

Christopher Finazzo had a great job that paid him millions of dollars, but this honest living was apparently not enough to satisfy his greed.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch