- T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
- Clement Clarke Moore on Christmas
- Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.
- George Osborne on Christmas
- That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.
- Jerry Seinfeld on Christmas
- The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
- Olivia Williams on Christmas
- The cheese board is my big treat at Christmas that I have to deny myself during the rest of year.
- Johnny Vegas on Christmas
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time.
- Joseph Ratzinger on Christmas
- The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.
- John Clayton on Christmas
- The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
- Phillips Brooks on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- Charles Dudley Warner on Christmas
- The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- George Carlin on Christmas
- The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.
- Beth Henley on Christmas
- The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
- A. J. Liebling on Christmas
- The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.
- Lionel Blue on Christmas
- The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.
- Paul Engle on Christmas
- The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
- David Friedrich Strauss on Christmas
- The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
- 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 on Christmas
- The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.
- Bob Schieffer on Christmas
- The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
- Alice Cooper on Christmas
- The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.
- David Eddings on Christmas
- The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
- Whitley Strieber on Christmas
- The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.
- Rick Springfield on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
- Gary Owens on Christmas
- There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.
- Ernest Istook on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
- Isaac Hanson on Christmas
- 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 on Christmas
- There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.
- Jerry Falwell on Christmas
- There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
- There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
- Erma Bombeck on Christmas
- There's something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.
- Kristen Wiig on Christmas
- Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day.
- Dag Hammarskjold on Christmas
- To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
- E. B. White on Christmas
- To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.
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