Sleighs Quotes:

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

- Clement Clarke Moore

source: Clement Clarke Moore (1934). “The Night Before Christmas: (A Visit from St. Nicholas).”, p.21, Courier Corporation

topic: Christmas, Sky, House, St Nicholas, Dry Leaves

Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh, hey, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh...

- James Pierpont

source: "Song: Jingle Bells". 1857.

topic: Christmas, Horse, Fun, Jingle Bells, Jingles

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

- Lydia M. Child

topic: Horse, Winter, Rivers, November Poems, Sleighs

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

- Irving Berlin

topic: Christmas, Dream, White, Glisten, Inspirational Holiday

East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through. For I would go to this impossible land that lay east of the sun and west of the moon. From the moment the sleigh had vanished from sight and I could no longer hear the silver bells I knew that I would go after the stranger that had been the white bear to make right the terrible wrong I had done him.... All that mattered was to make things right. And I would do whatever it took, journey to wherever I must, to reach that goal.

- Edith Pattou

source: Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.153, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Moon, Journey, Sight, Make Things Right, Silver Bells

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

- Mira Nair

topic: Christmas, Light, May, Christmas Lights, Sleighs

When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Real, Dark, Winter, Braces, Winter Night

Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur of his beautiful flowing tail got singed by the rainbow fires of the aurora. To this day the reindeer has no tail to speak of. But he is too busy pulling the Important Sleigh to notice what is lost. And he certainly doesn’t complain. What's your excuse?

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Beautiful, Christmas, Running, Aurora, Reindeer

You read, move your lips, figure out the words, and it's like you're in two places at the same time: you're sitting or lying with your legs curled up, your hand groping in the bowl, but you can see different worlds, far-off worlds that maybe never existed but still seem real. You run or sail or race in a sleigh--you're running away from someone, or you yourself have decided to attack--your heart thumps, life flies by, and it's wondrous: you can live as many different lives as there are books to read.

- Tatyana Tolstaya

source: Tatyana Tolstaya (2016). “The Slynx”, p.127, New York Review of Books

topic: Running, Real, Lying, Different Worlds, Wondrous

I grew up in the prolonged survival of the great age of the horse, with harness and saddle and sleigh bells and horse pictures, not as antiques but the facts of our lives.

- Paul Engle

topic: Horse, Survival, Age, Sleighs

I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.

- Mariah Carey

source: "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

topic: Song, Horse, Two, Aspens, Snowman

Jack believed in something—he believed in white witches and sleighs pulled by wolves, and in the world the trees obscured. He believed that there were better things in the woods. He believed in palaces of ice and hearts to match. Hazel had, too. Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass. She had believed that because someone needing saving they were savable. She had believed in these things, but not anymore. And this is why she had to rescue Jack, even though he might not hear what she had to tell him.

- Anne Ursu

topic: Heart, Ice, Shoes, Sleighs

Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Christmas, Blow, Numbers, Midget, Shipping

Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.

- Christopher Moore

topic: Bells, Ribbons, Cold, Mistletoe, Festive

Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.

- Paul Engle

topic: Children, Iowa, Church, Cedars, Sleighs

We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time and spend time with my family and friends. It's kind of funny, most people do turkey and all the trimmings, but we would have a big seafood festival because it's the only time of the year that we'd eat it. We never really went caroling, but once in a while we'd got out for a sleigh ride

- Jimmy Roy

topic: Funny Christmas, Home, Years, Trimming, Tight Family

Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there was not enough snow to go by sleigh to midnight Mass.

- Maurice Grimaud

topic: Hunting, Games, Snow, Hunting Season, Sleighs

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

- Tatiana Maslany

topic: Hip Hop, Musical, Bells, Musical Theater, Sleighs