Christmas Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• 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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• The ideal Christmas gift is money, but the trouble is you can't charge it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Trouble, Ideals, Christmas Gift

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• Christmas is a mood, a quality, a symbol. It is never merely a fact.

  Howard Thurman

  Quality, Facts, Mood

  Howard Thurman (1956). “The Growing Edge 1”

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• If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

  Bertrand Russell

  Work, Holiday, Math

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5

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• Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

  Arlo Guthrie

  Funny, Hair, Long

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• I deciced if I were ever to get into booze and women, my line would be, 'Excuse me, madam, but I would really love to bed and muss you. . . . Are you perchance free this evening?

  Rachel Cohn

  Bed, Would Be, Lines

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.35, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.

  Pat Boone

  Blessing, Bahrain, Good Times

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• So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.

  Henry Vaughan

  Spring, Ivy, Great Day

  Henry Vaughan (1896). “Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist”

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• The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Light, Offering, Tree

  Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.886, Ballantine Books

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• Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.

  Steve Coogan

  Jesus, Years, Two

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• On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.

  Nigella Lawson

  Children, Adults, Literature

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• It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

  Nick Hornby

  World, Messages, Holes

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.138, Penguin

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• Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar... Or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.

  Sean Hughes

  Drinking, Night, Drunk

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• If God would grant us the vision, the word sacrifice would disappear from our lips and thoughts; we would hate the things that seem now so dear to us; our lives would suddenly be too short, we would despise time-robbing distractions and charge the enemy with all our energies in the name of Christ. May God help us ourselves by the eternities that separate the Aucas from a Comprehension of Christmas and Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor so that we might, through his poverty, be made rich.

  Nate Saint

  Hate, Sacrifice, Names

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• On Christmas morning, our joy or our happiness can be at a very high level, not because of our anticipation of what we might receive but, rather, in anticipation of watching our loved ones open our gifts to them. In fact, if we're not careful, we can fail to register sufficient excitement and joy upon opening the gifts we receive from others. We must remember that they are happiest at that time and to give them top billing, to stretch their happiness to its full length.

  Earl Nightingale

  Morning, Giving, Joy

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• Christmas can be the end of emptiness and waywardness; The beginning of happiness and purposefulness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Emptiness, Ends, Purposefulness

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• The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

  Mencius

  Positive, Wisdom, Children

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The works of mencius”, p.198

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• I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Baby, Up Early, Naps

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• Ugster vinyl pumps, Partridge Family records, plastic daisy jewelry, old postcards. . . . It's a magpie Christmas market.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Records, Pumps, Jewelry

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Beautiful Boys: Missing Angel Juan and Baby Be-Bop”, p.104, Zondervan

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• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

  Sylvia Plath

  Way, Dull, Carols

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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• We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.

  John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

  Kings, Stars, Mountain

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• It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Holiday, Cards

  "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.

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• I actually share her view and understand her frustration when any government attempts to ban secular symbols like Santa Claus or Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer or Christmas lights.

  Steve Israel

  Frustration, Light, Government

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