Christmas Quotes - Page 29

• It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, 'Every kid doesn't have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

  Tori Spelling

  Dad, Kids, Snow

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• The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around was the song 'Christmas with You' from the point-of-view of the soldiers in Iraq.

  Rick Springfield

  Song, Iraq, Views

  "American TV Icon: Rick Springfield". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2007.

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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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• 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

  Sleep, Kids, Endless Time

  "Writer-Director Andrea Arnold Talks WUTHERING HEIGHTS at Sundance". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Eight, Years, Population

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• Have a holly jolly Christmas!

  Burl Ives

  Hollies, Jolly

  Song: Overture and a Holly Jolly Christmas

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• Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.

  Trey Parker

  Mom, Saws, Pleasure

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• Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

  Renee Fleming

  Singers, Discs

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• I told the kids the house is going to be our Christmas. We didn't want them to think Christmas is just about gifts you're going to receive, but it's about Christ coming to Earth.

  Jim Bob Duggar

  Kids, Thinking, House

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• Jewish Christmas' - that's what my gentile friends called Chanukah when I was growing up in Michigan in the thirties and forties. Anachronistic, yes, but they had a point. Observing the dietary laws of separating milk and meat dishes was far easier for the handful of Jewish families in our little town than getting through December without mixing the two holidays.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Growing Up, Holiday, Law

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.33, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Christmas was a miserable time for a Jewish child in those days, and I still recall the feeling. ... Decades later, I still feel left out at Christmas, but I sing the carols anyway. You might recognize me if you ever heard me. I'm the one who sings, 'La-la, the la-la is born.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Children, Feelings, Might

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• At Christmas-tide the open hand
  Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land,
  And none are left to grieve alone,
  For Love is heaven and claims its own.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Grieving, Love Is, Hands

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• A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a person.

  Halford Luccock

  Ideas, Way, Scientist

  "Whoops! It's Christmas". "The Abbott Christmas Book". Book edited by Herbert W. Luthin, 1960.

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• I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

  David Friedman

  Goodbye, Kings, Farewell

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• A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

  Thomas Fuller

  Birthday, Double Standard, Kind

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• War toys are scary. They have a rocket launcher with a bayonet attached, in case you miss.

  Milton Berle

  War, Scary, Missing

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• The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed.

  Paul Engle

  Mother, Memories, Hands

  Paul Engle (1996). “A Lucky American Childhood”, p.182, University of Iowa Press

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• Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

  Unknown

  Merry Christmas, Black Friday

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• It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

  Patrick Stewart

  Generosity, Giving, Rejection

  "Televised chestnuts: Christmas present". www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

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• I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.

  Dakota Fanning

  Years, Waiting, My Birthday

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• 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

  Running, Song, Journey

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• I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

  Richard Dawkins

  Father, People, Childhood

  "Darwin's child". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 10, 2003.

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• There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

  Ice Cube

  Real, Hood

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• Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Heart, Bags, Red

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• I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long enough quality to actually SEE them. My calm, unhurried presence communicates this gift of a message, "I see you. I recognize you. I remember our times of together and am contributing right now to another quality memory. I value you and honor and take the time, right this moment to pause long enough to truly notice you."

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Holiday, Thinking

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