36 Christmas quotes:
Christmas is thought by most to be a wonderful time, focusing the participants on giving, beautiful music, family togetherness, and decorations, feasting on special foods and singing Christmas carols throughout the neighborhood.
Check out these top 36 Christmas quotes to share with your friends & family:
#1 Winston Churchill
“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” –
#2 Charlotte Carpenter
”Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under a tree.” –
#3 Larry Wilde
”Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
#4 George Eliot
“Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.”
#5 Helen Steiner Rice
”Peace on earth will come to stay when we live Christmas every day.”
#6 Augusta E. Rundel
“Christmas, that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance – a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.”
#7 Garry Moore
”Christmas is, of course, the time to be home – in the heart as well as the body.”
#8 Meredith Willson
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas; soon the bells will start, and the thing that will make them ring, is the carol that you sing, right within your heart.”
#9 Agnes M. Pharo
“What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
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#10 Bess Streeter Aldrich
“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with the melody that would last forever.”
#11 Burton Hills
“The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
#12 Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.”
#13 Bing Crosby
”Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.”
#14 Charles Dickens
”I have always thought of Christmas-time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.”
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#15 Julie Hebert
“Christmas is more than just presents, it’s love and harmony.”
#16 W.C. Jones
“The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.”
#17 William A Ward
“Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.”
#18 Joanne Woodward
”Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It’s always the next Christmas.”
#19 Bob Hope
“My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
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#20 W.J. Ronald Tucker
”For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.”
#21 Washington Irving
“Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
#22 Julie Hebert
“Christmas is for everyone, adults and children alike. Allow this season fill your heart, and let go of the things you dislike.”
#23 Bob Hope
”When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things – not the great occasions – give off the greatest glow of happiness.”
#24 Sam Longhorn
”At no other time during the year is the spirit of giving and sharing more alive in people’s hearts. Keep this spirit of Christmas in your heart all year long.”
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#25 Norman Vincent Peale
“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”
#26 J.L.W. Brooks
”Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.”
#27 Calvin Coolidge
“Christmas is not a time nor a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy is to have the real spirit of Christmas.”
#28 Carrie Fisher
”I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another.”
#29 Richard Paul Evans
”The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood.”
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#30 Brigham Young
”Love the giver more than the gift.
#31 Burton Hills
”The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.”
#32 Clement Clarke Moore
”It was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
#33 Edna Ferber
Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.
#34 Andy Rooney
”One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.”
#35 Mary Ellen Chase
”Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
#36 Dr. Seuss
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.”
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