Christmas Quotes - Page 28

• 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

  Light, May, Sleighs

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• I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

  Mo Rocca

  Stars, Shopping, Excess

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• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Tony Visconti

  Song, Father, Ukulele

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• There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red berries, which peel back in the night to reveal gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh, Christmas in hot deserts, dust-blown countries, the necklace of tears, and the story of the robin.

  Sarah Hall

  Country, Night, Dust

  Sarah Hall (2010). “Haweswater”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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• Christmas has a way of bringing out the best in everyone

  Bing Crosby

  Way, Bringing Out The Best

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

  Gene Autry

  Santa, Santa Claus, Lanes

  Song: Here Comes Santa Claus v2

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• 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.

  Jack Nelson

  Children, Eye, Two

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• 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

  Horse, Fun, Jingles

  "Song: Jingle Bells". 1857.

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• I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus. Underneath the mistletoe last night. She didn't see me creep down the stairs to have a peep; She thought that I was tucked up in my bedroom fast asleep. Then, I saw mommy tickle Santa Claus Underneath his beard so snowy white; Oh, what a laugh it would have been. If daddy had only seen. mommy kissing Santa Claus, last night.

  Jimmy Boyd

  Kissing, Night, White

  Song: I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

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• O Come All Ye Faithful, Joyful and triumphant. O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem. Come and behold Him, Born the King of Angels; O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord.

  John Francis Wade

  Kings, Angel, Faithful

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• Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.

  Johnny Marks

  Rudolph, Noses, Reindeer

  "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (song) (1949)

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• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

  Meredith Willson

  Looks, Silver, Lanes

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• I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

  Diane Abbott

  Dog, Morbid, Postman

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

  Milton Berle

  Office, Careful, Posts

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• They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

  Milton Berle

  Real, Tree, Aluminum

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• I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.

  Milton Berle

  Son, Yesterday, Car

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• 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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hatred, Sausage, Merit

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• Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dog, Children, Holiday

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• Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

  Alan Bradley

  Holiday, Thinking, Special

  Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.1150, Delacorte Press

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• As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
  Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

  Lori Copeland

  Light, Lamps, Priceless

  Lori Copeland (2009). “The Christmas Lamp: A Novella”, p.60, Zondervan

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• We must look to Mary's example to know how to deal with the glorious impossibilities of God. Look how she turned the world upside down by making one simple statement.

  Calvin Miller

  Simple, Example, Looks

  Calvin Miller (2006). “The Christ of Christmas”, p.53, B&H Publishing Group

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• Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.

  Enid Nemy

  Office, Essentials, Window

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• Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Glasses, Praying, Harm

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.424

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• Have a holly jolly Christmas!

  Burl Ives

  Hollies, Jolly

  Song: Overture and a Holly Jolly Christmas

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• You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

  William Bolitho

  Art, Giving, Needs

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