Christmas Quotes

"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, Critic

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

Kevin Richardson, Musician

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

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic"

Lance Burton, Entertainer

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

Bryan White, Musician

"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, Clergyman

"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"

Ivan Lendl, Athlete

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

Frank Butler

"If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love"

Robbie Fowler, Athlete

"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, Actor

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

Robin Trower, Musician

"Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came"

Ian Mckellen, Actor

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

John Tesh, Musician

"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, Actress

"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"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year"

Keith Thibodeaux, Musician

"To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry"

John Tesh, Musician

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'"

Bing Crosby, Musician

"I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?"

Ian St. John, Athlete

"Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there"

Amy Grant, Musician

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

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely"

Frank McCourt, Author

"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, Actress

"Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own"

Ethel Merman, Musician

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

Jimmy Cannon, Journalist

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

David O. Selznick, Producer

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

Peter Agre, Scientist

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

Wendy Cope, Poet

"I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them"

Frances Farmer, Actress

"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other"

Keith Thibodeaux, Musician

"I intend to keep writing Christmas songs. There's still a lot more about Christmas that can be captured and feel like old-time Christmas. A lot of the traditions haven't been explained in song"

Clint Black, Musician

"I remember wishing there was snow in L.A. And how jealous we used to get of those Christmas specials with kids playing in the snow"

Ice Cube, Musician

"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, Politician

"Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday"

John Clayton

"I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards"

Suzy Bogguss, Musician

"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

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

Phyllis McGinley, Author

"Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"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, Director

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