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Short Christmas Quotes

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Charles Dickens

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

E. B. White

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Phyllis McGinley

Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.

James Cronin

On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

Nigella Lawson

Deep Christmas Quotes

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

Leonard Maltin

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

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

Garrison Keillor

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

David O. Selznick

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.

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

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.

Dag Hammarskjold

More Christmas Quotes

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

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

Norman Vincent Peale

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

Richard Roeper

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Frank McCourt

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

William Tecumseh Sherman

We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

Peter Agre

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Katherine Whitehorn

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.

Leonard Maltin

Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.

Frances Wright

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

Dr. Seuss

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

Freya Stark

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

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

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

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

John Hughes

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Steve Israel

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Robert Teeter

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Clement Clarke Moore

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Thomas Tusser

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

Richard Brautigan

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Roy L. Smith

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Edna Ferber

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

Jimmy Cannon

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

Janet Napolitano

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Alfred E. Smith

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.

Frank Howard Clark

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.

Grazia Deledda

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

Vincent Frank

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time.

George J. Mitchell

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!

Lloyd Kaufman

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 Lynd

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

John Clayton

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Frank Butler

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

James Irwin

Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

Enid Nemy

There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.

Adele Comandini

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

Stephen Fry

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

John Tesh

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

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

Robin Trower

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

Bryan White

Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.

Chris Frantz

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

So many people release albums before Christmas and they get lost in the Christmas rush.

Bonnie Tyler

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

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

Kevin Richardson

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

Tanya Tucker

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