Christmas Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• I bought my son a bat for Christmas. On New Year's it flew away.

  Milton Berle

  New Year, Son, Years

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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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• Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing. Luckily, it's usually a source of amusement rather than frustration. A flashlight by any other name is still a torch. My personal favourite is 'fairy lights,' which we boringly refer to as 'Christmas lights.'

  Sloane Crosley

  Frustration, Light, Names

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

  Ice Cube

  Real, Hood

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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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• One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Holiday, Things I Love, Tradition

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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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• Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

  Renee Fleming

  Singers, Discs

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

  Stephen King

  House, Be Good, Merry

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2013

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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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• 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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• 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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