Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard E. Grant

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.

Renee Fleming

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

Thomas Hood

Bells are musics laughter.

Thomas S. Monson

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

T. S. Eliot

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.

Suzy Bogguss

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

Ray Stannard Baker

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.

Richard Brautigan

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

Roy Rogers

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it....

Roy Rogers

Like God, Christmas is timeless and eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. It is something even more than what happened that night in starlit little Bethlehem; it has been behind the stars forever. There was Christmas in the heart of God before the world was formed.

Thomas Menino

I grew up with a Christmas tree, I'm going to stay with a Christmas tree.

Thomas Merton

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.

Sting

So just to be truthful to my own sensibility, I need to acknowledge that the season is not all joy and light for a lot of people. It's tough - environmentally, emotionally, spiritually.

Steve Israel

I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

Steve Coogan

Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

Stephen Fry

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Tim Allen

Pere Noel. Babbo Natale. Pelznickel. Topo Gigio

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

Tom Hanks

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.

TobyMac

I'm not going to put out a Christmas CD until it's coming out of me naturally.

TobyMac

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

TobyMac

During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

Thomas Kinkade

The flow of blessings in our life is directly related to our passing blessings along to someone else.

Victoria Osteen

We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.

Victor Hugo

And if it happened to be a Christmas-night when the great bell seemed to rattle in its throat as it called the faithful to the midnight mass, there was such an indescribable air of life spread over the sombre facade that the great door-way looked as if it were swallowing the entire crowd, and the rose-window staring at them.

Vachel Lindsay

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright.

Stephen Leacock

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Stephen King

It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

Taylor Caldwell

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

Sylvia Plath

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

Samantha Stosur

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.

Tom Lehrer

On Christmas day you can't get sore, your fellow man you must adore. There's time to cheat him all the more the other three hundred and sixty-four