Christmas Quotes - Page 24

• Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas.

  Lewis Black

  Online

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

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• We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

  Frank McCourt

  Memories, Kind, Failing

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• It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at Christmas, to forget petty worries and irritations and think in terms of universal peace. And so Christmas is the nearest to mystical experience that most human beings ever approach, with its memories of Dickens and Irving's Bracebridge Hall.

  Colin Wilson

  Memories, Thinking, Irritation

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• No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Giving, Ponies

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• It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Country, Silly

  Ronald Reagan (1968). “I goofed: the wise and curious sayings of Ronald Reagan, 33rd Governor of California”

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• Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

  Richard Roeper

  Thanksgiving, Looks, Half

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• When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.

  Chris Brown

  Four Wheelers, Trampolines, Wanted

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• It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.

  Paul van Dyk

  Family, Christmas Giving

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• You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, People, Giving

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• I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

  Cher

  Aunt, Japan, America

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• Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.

  Fanny Kemble

  Shopping, Broken, Done

  Fanny Kemble (1890). “Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life”

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• 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

  Religious, Gay, Light

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Details, Letters, Return

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• The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.

  John Redmond

  Home, Ivy, Hollies

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• God walked down the stairs of heaven with a Baby in His arms.

  Paul Scherrer

  Baby, Heaven, Arms

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• The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

  Ronald Hutton

  Religious, Fashion, Flower

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge to beat that Little Drummer Boy senseless with his own drumsticks.

  Dana Reinhardt

  Boys, Littles, Drummer

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• In America, Christmas is the king of all holidays. To be left out of Christmas is the ultimate minority experience.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Kings, Holiday, America

  Firoozeh Dumas (2007). “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America”, p.107, Random House

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• Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Baby, Believe, Years

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• Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Holiday, People, Giving

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• Ah, Christ, I love you rings to the wild sky
  And I must think a little of the past:
  When I was ten I told a stinking lie
  That got a black boy whipped.

  Allen Tate

  Lying, Love You, Boys

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.103, Macmillan

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• The day's at end and there's nowhere to go,
  Draw to the fire, even this fire is dying;
  Get up and once again politely lying
  Invite the ladies toward the mistletoe.

  Allen Tate

  Lying, Fire, Dying

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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• Then God spoke to me and said:
  People say only good things about Christmas.
  If they want to say something bad,
  they whisper.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, People

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Green, Nasty, Faded

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.161, e-artnow

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• When the cow gives blood
  and the Christ is born
  we must all eat sacrifices.
  We must all eat beautiful women.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, God, Jesus

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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