Famous Quotes
- 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 on Christmas
- If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
- Mahalia Jackson on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
- Jeff Miller on Christmas
- In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing each other and gratutious over eating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!
- Lloyd Kaufman on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.
- Richard Bach on Christmas
- It always depresses me when people moan about how commercial Christmas is. I love everything about it. The tradition of having this great big feast, slap bang in the middle of winter, is an essential thing to look forward to at the end of the year.
- Richard E. Grant on Christmas
- It can't be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more. Any actor will tell you, it's like Christmas.
- Bill Nighy on Christmas
- It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song, but at the same time I had to really put all sorts of pressure aside and just let the creativity flow and see what came out.
- Christina Perri on Christmas
- It is never too late to get into tennis! While I started playing at the age of 8 when my parents gave me a tennis racquet for Christmas, tennis is a lifelong sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any age. It's also something you never forget once you learn.
- Samantha Stosur on Christmas
- It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
- Julie Burchill on Christmas
- It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'
- Tori Spelling on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs.
- Spike Jonze on Christmas
- It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.
- Luke Perry on Christmas
- It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.
- Zack Snyder on Christmas
- It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.
- Diane Kruger on Christmas
- 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.
- Ronald Reagan on Christmas
- It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
- Christopher Hitchens on Christmas
- It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
- Caroline Kennedy on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.
- Gary Allan on Christmas
- Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible.
- Lauren Graham on Christmas
- Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
- Johnny Carson on Christmas
- Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
- Annie Lennox on Christmas
- May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
- Alastair Campbell on Christmas
- Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.
- 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.
- T. S. Eliot on Christmas
- Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.
- Ryan Adams on Christmas
- My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
- My Christmas wish would be to have an entire week off. To spend it with my family and just curl up and watch Christmas movies when it's snowing outside.
- David Hasselhoff on Christmas
- My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with the giant vat and drainer, label them, and give them as Christmas presents.
- Mario Batali on Christmas
- My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.
- George Weah on Christmas
- My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
- My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front. It's just not December without that movie in my house.
- My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
- Katharine McPhee on Christmas
- My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
- Margot Kidder on Christmas
- My mom is a really good cook. I didn't get the cooking gene, but she cooks this really amazing dinner every Christmas, and that's always really fun.
- Miranda Cosgrove on Christmas
- My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.
- Busy Philipps on Christmas
- My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.
- Meghan O'Rourke on 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.
- Jim Carrey on Christmas
- My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
- Kary Mullis on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- My parents still treat Christmas like I'm thirteen years old.
- Mike Shinoda on Christmas
- My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.
- Jimmy Fallon on Christmas
- Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- Kin Hubbard on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
- Ellen DeGeneres on Christmas
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