CHRISTMAS QUOTES
quotations about Christmas
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
The Tonight Show
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
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
New York Times, Dec. 23, 1984
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
And now humanity has its most beautiful and most appropriate Christmas gift--Peace.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY
"Old Thoughts for Christmas", Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street
The "first Christmas" was a simple time of beauty and wonder. The birth of Christ was less about celebration than it was about family. Though many today may grow tired of the commercialization of Christmas, in reality it has opened the door for Christ to once again become the focal point of the season, and for family, especially children, to be at the heart of the celebration.
ACE COLLINS
Stories Behind Great Traditions of Christmas
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER
A Little House Sampler
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
There'll be much mistletoeing
And hearts will be glowing,
When loved ones are near.
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
EDDIE POLA & GEORGE WYLE
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
More and more people each year are going abroad for Christmas ... Fed up with the fact that commercial Christmas starts in October. Fed up with carols. Dreading the arrival of Christmas cards from people they have forgotten to send a card to. Unable to bear yet another family get-together with Auntie Mary puking up in the corner after sampling too much of the punch. You see in the airports the triumphant glitter in the eyes of people who are leaving it all behind, including the hundredth rerun of Miracle on 34th Street.
M.C. BEATON
A Highland Christmas
Merry Christmas! ... What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented against you? If I would work my will ... every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas," on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
CHARLES DICKENS
A Christmas Carol
Christmas itself may be called into question,
If carried so far it creates indigestion.
RALPH BERGENGREN
"The Unwise Christmas"
Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.
RONALD REAGAN
writings, Apr. 13, 1977
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT
Little Women
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart ... filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH
Song of Years
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously.
BILL WATTERSON
The Essential Calvin and Hobbes
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"
Christmas doesn't come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more....
DR. SEUSS
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
To spread, where'er thy golden feet have trod,
The benediction of His grace divine:
To hold the promise of His final plan
Blazing before the eyes of human-kind,
And, at thy setting, leave His love enshrined
Anew in the reminded heart of man!
GUY WETMORE CARRYL
"The Bearer of Glad Tidings"
Amidst the general call to happiness, the bustle of the spirits, and stir of affections, which prevail at this period, what bosom can remain insensible? It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling--the season for kindling not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.
WASHINGTON IRVING
Old Christmas