Christmas Dinner Quotes

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

  Thomas Tusser

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie (1580)

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• You know you've had too much to eat for Christmas dinner when you slump down onto a beanbag and realize... there is no beanbag.

  David Letterman

  Slumps, Dinner, Too Much

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Dark, Blue, Views

  Shel Silverstein, “Point Of View”

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• The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at Christmas dinner. Relationships hadn't ever really worked for me. I think it's had something to do with all the demons, ghosts, and human sacrifice.

  Jim Butcher

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Grave Peril: Book three of The Dresden Files”, p.43, Penguin

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• Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view. Sunday dinner isn't sunny. Easter feasts are just bad luck. When you see it from the viewpoint of a chicken or a duck. Oh how I once loved tuna salad Pork and lobsters, lamb chops too Till I stopped and looked at dinner From the dinner's point of view.

  Shel Silverstein

  Easter, Sunday, Dark

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• Dexter thrust a pamphlet into Samuel's hand. "Greenstreet Mission. We're doing a Christmas dinner. You can get a meal and hear the word of God." Samuel smiled in relief. This, finally, he understood. "Which word?" "What?" "Well, God's said a lot of words, you know, and a word like 'it' or 'the' wouldn't be worth hearing again but its always fun listening to Him try and say aluminum.

  Tanya Huff

  Fun, Hands, Listening

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• Ive not cooked Christmas dinner since 1982.

  Lesley Nicol

  Dinner

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• On my days off I pick up our chicken's eggs. My wife and I have five chickens called The Spice Girls. Five lovely chicks. And no, we won't be eating any of them for Christmas dinner.

  John Nettles

  Girl, Eggs, Wife

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.

  Peter Agre

  Christmas, Dad, Dinner

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• My mother accidentally gave me food poisoning. She fed me baby carrots for a snack before Christmas dinner - but they had expired in June! I threw up for the next 24 hours.

  Busy Philipps

  Christmas, Mother, Baby

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I read The Hunger Games voraciously and was extremely annoyed when interrupted by such inconsequential things as 'Christmas dinner.' (God, Mom, did you not understand Katniss was being pursued by the mutts? You have several children, why does it always have to be about collecting the whole set all the time?)

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mom, Children, Katniss

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• I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family - it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner; everyone knows everyone and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to sit.

  John Cleese

  Christmas, Scary, Joining

  "Die Another Day - Cleese talks Q / writers discuss plot" by Jack Foley, indielondon.co.uk. 2003.

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