Christmas Quotes

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

"Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas"

"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

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

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing"

John Cleese, Actor

"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 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

"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, Economist

"So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of "The Most Offensive Song Ever" with lyrics intact"

Trey Parker, Artist

"I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion"

Jack Bowman, Actor

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

David O. Selznick, Producer

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

Chris Frantz, Musician

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

Kevin Richardson, Musician

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

Chris Brown, Musician

"I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"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, Politician

"Christmas is over and Business is Business"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"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

"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, Leader

"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

"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

"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, Writer

"I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition"

Fred Melamed, Actor

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

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"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, Politician

"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

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

Robin Trower, Musician

"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

"In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934"

Jack Steinberger, Physicist

"Christmas albums are not something you do frequently"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"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

"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

"So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only"

Peter Jurasik, Actor

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