Christmas Quotes

"Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up"

"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi"

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas"

"But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year"

"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"

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

"I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere"

"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"

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

"When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas"

"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"

"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!"

"From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money"

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

"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"

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

"It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period"

"Christmas makes everything twice as sad"

"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that"

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

"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"

"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"

"My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time"

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

"My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points"

"Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time"

"In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea"

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

"My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had to learn to save. I used to get like 50 pence a week, and I'd save it for like five months. And then I'd spend it on Christmas presents. I'd save up like eight pounds. It's nothing, but we did that"

"I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season"