Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

Christmas Day is the festival of optimism.

Helen Keller

The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another. Jesus is the reason for the season! From a little spark may burst a mighty flame. The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

Helen Keller

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

George Eliot

Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.

George J. Mitchell

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.

Christina Rossetti

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

Christina Rossetti

Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show.

Christina Rossetti

Christmas hath a darkness; Brighter than the blazing noon; Christmas hath a chillness Warmer than the heat of June, Christmas hath a beauty Lovelier than the world can show: For Christmas bringeth Jesus, Brought for us so low

Christina Rossetti

Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

Christina Rossetti

What can I give Him, Poor as I am? If I were a shepherd I would bring a lamb. If I were a Wise Man I would do my part. Yet what can I give Him? I give Him my heart.

Irving Berlin

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten And children listen To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

Irving Berlin

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas With every Christmas card I write May your days be merry and bright And may all your Christmases be white.

Irving Berlin

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

Because everyone is expecting a weak Christmas, the market is in for a surprise because I don't think American consumers are going to cut back on spending.

By Christmas we should have an exhibition hall outside so that they can continue to work with the electrical and everything else on the inside,

Gasoline pump prices fell by a third from early September to early December, and the Consumer Confidence Index was nearly back to the pre-hurricane level by Thanksgiving. Early reports suggest that Christmas shoppers will spend 6 percent to 7 percent more than last year.

Franklin P. Adams

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Jim Carrey

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.

George William Curtis

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.

George Whitefield

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

George S. Kaufman

You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!

George Bernard Shaw

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

Gene Autry

Here comes Santa Claus! Here comes Santa Claus! Right down Santa Claus Lane!

But he proved them wrong. He woke up around Christmas, and that gave us the Christmas miracle we had been hoping for.

Harry Connick, Jr.

'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.

Gregg Easterbrook

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.

John White

I don't know if we'll be able to move in by Christmas, but we're at least going to be able to put up a Christmas tree in here,

I didn't do the right training over Christmas because of the trials. I think the year before, I didn't have to travel back to the U.S. I got to do really quality training, and except for a little sickness in January, I had pretty good skiing and results in 2005.

J. I. Packer

The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.

Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

Most of the time I worked full time at the fairgrounds, then I went straight into Christmas Love.

Much of the recent team success comes from David and Diane knowing how to deal with kids going away and shepherding kids through the Christmas period,

Mary Quant

My garden in England is full of eating-out places, for heat waves, warm September evenings, or lunch on a frosty Christmas morning.