Famous Quotes

"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

More quotes about 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

• "He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree."

  Roy L. Smith on Christmas

• "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."

  George Carlin on Christmas

• "Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."

  Dr. Seuss on Christmas

• "A good conscience is a continual Christmas."

  Benjamin Franklin on Christmas

More quotes by Beth Henley

• "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."

• "The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress."

• "Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny."

• "What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."