Famous Quotes
- 'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Christmas
- 'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected.
- Michael Scheuer on Christmas
- A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
- Leonard Maltin on Christmas
- A friend gave me a CD of the 'Pathetique' Symphony as a Christmas present. I went home, and I put on the CD expecting to listen to Tchaikovsky. But it started 'ta ta ta taaa.' It was too long for me. I didn't understand it at first, but then I fell in love, in love, in love.
- Gustavo Dudamel on Christmas
- A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
- Benjamin Franklin on Christmas
- A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.
- Ashley Benson on Christmas
- A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
- Garrison Keillor on Christmas
- A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.
- Hugh Bonneville on Christmas
- According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time.
- Grazia Deledda on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
- Ashley Judd on Christmas
- As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.
- Clement Clarke Moore on Christmas
- At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.
- Kevin Richardson on Christmas
- At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.
- Thomas Tusser on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.
- Guy Berryman on Christmas
- Besides the two Christmas things, we've got a about a dozen new tracks we're working on.
- Chris Frantz on Christmas
- Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It's the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season.
- Evan Davis on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'
- Sloane Crosley on Christmas
- But Tammy Faye calls me, and Ron Jeremy calls me, Erik Estrada sends me a Christmas card every year.
- Trishelle Cannatella on Christmas
- Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.
- Isaac Hanson on Christmas
- Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
- Dan Savage on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
- David Cameron on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Christmas in L.A. is weird. There's no snow. It's not even cold.
- Ellie Goulding on Christmas
- Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
- Jimmy Cannon on Christmas
- Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
- Washington Irving on Christmas
- Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.
- Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.
- Katharine McPhee on Christmas
- Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm on Christmas
- Christmas is more stressful with present buying and making sure everyone gets included, but Thanksgiving is really not that. I don't ever really get stressed out about the food.
- Sandra Lee on Christmas
- 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.
- Calvin Coolidge on Christmas
- Christmas is over and Business is Business.
- Franklin P. Adams on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.
- John Clayton on Christmas
- Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
- Alexander Smith on Christmas
- Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
- Richard Lamm on Christmas
- Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
- Garry Moore on Christmas
- Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
- Edna Ferber on Christmas
- Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
- Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
- Doug Coupland on Christmas
- Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
- Bryan White on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
- Stephen Fry on Christmas
- Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale on Christmas
- Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase on Christmas
- Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
- Dale Evans on Christmas
- Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
- Freya Stark on Christmas
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