Christmas Quotes

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

"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

"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, Politician

"Christmas albums are not something you do frequently"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"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

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

Isaac Hanson, Musician

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

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"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

"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

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

Frances Wright, Writer

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

Nigella Lawson, Journalist

"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

"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, Astronaut

"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

"South Park started as a little video Christmas card"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress"

Sarah Polley, Actress

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

Enid Nemy

"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

"I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day"

Monica Seles, Athlete

"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

"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch"

Jose Mourinho, Coach

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

Clement Clarke Moore, Writer

"The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'"

Jensen Ackles, Actor

"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

"Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas"

Dale Evans, Actress

"Christmas is over and Business is Business"

Franklin P. Adams, Journalist

"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

"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"

Gemma Arterton, Actress

"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, Poet

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

James Cronin, Physicist

"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"

Dennis Bergkamp, Athlete

"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

"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"

Rebecca Romijn, Actress

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

Chris Frantz, Musician

"Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor"

Sara Gilbert, Actress

"'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected"

Michael Scheuer, Public Servant

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

Richard Brautigan, Writer

"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 Staughton Lynd, Sociologist

"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, Critic

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

Trishelle Cannatella, Celebrity

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