Quotes and Sayings About Christmas
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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
-- A. E. van Vogt -
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 -
O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad'st all worlds.
-- Abraham Coles -
When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
-- Adam Carolla -
God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
-- Adam Hamilton -
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
-- Alan Dundes -
People tend to stay at home and eat a home-cooked meal. There are three days that are really slow for restaurants - Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
-- Alastair Campbell -
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
-- Alexander Smith -
Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.
-- Alfred Noyes -
The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.
-- Alfred the Great -
I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.
-- Alison Sweeney -
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
-- Alistair Cooke -
I forget the derivation of Boxing Day, but the feeling of wanting to invite your loved ones outside one at a time and punch them in the face, does that come into it somewhere?
-- Allison Pearson -
God bless you and utterly satisfy your heart...with Himself.
-- Amy Carmichael -
Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
-- Amy Grant -
People have nannies and big cars, and they want to go to Maui for Christmas. When there are those kind of stakes involved, people get ruthless.
-- Amy Sherman-Palladino -
I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas feels like ten years. I used to go to bed to try and go to sleep to try and make it go faster.
-- Andrea Arnold -
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
I had this idea when I was in the hospital, .. It seems like every year I always have different people come and ask for a Christmas song and it seemed strangely appropriate for me this year because Christmas is the time that I am supposed to be sort of back and up and running and whatnot. So I just wrote a song about returning from this very interesting journey and kind of getting back to normal and getting back to work and my regular life.
-- Andrew McMahon -
So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the maker of the moon. He was the author of the fate that could make the mountains move.
-- Andrew Peterson -
Xmas Trivia: Before it became a major shopping holiday, Christmas is believed to have had a "religious" meaning.
-- Andy Borowitz -
You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.
-- Andy Borowitz -
As popular as Christmas is, it would be even bigger if it had vampires.
-- Andy Borowitz -
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ~ (1919-), American writer, producer, humorist.
-- Andy Rooney -
Christmas, so long looming over everyone's head, finally surged up, buried everyone alive and ebbed away, leaving its victims distinctly cross.
-- Angela Thirkell -
If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.
-- Angelus Silesius -
if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.
-- Anna Thomas -
Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.
-- Annie Lennox -
Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.
-- April Winchell
