Quotes About Christmas

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.

All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find.

Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.

From the Valley of the Jolly . . . Ho! Ho! Ho! . . . Green Giant.

Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twine mistletoe and holly. For a friendship glows In winter snows, And so let's all be jolly!

Through the years we all will be together,If the Fates allow.Hang a shining star upon the highest bough,And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.

Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year.

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,Please to put a penny in the old man's hat;If you haven't got a penny, a ha'penny will do,If you haven't got a ha'penny, God bless you!

The holly and the ivy,When they are both full grown,Of all the trees that are in the wood,The holly bears the crown:The rising of the sunAnd the running of the deer,The playing of the merry organ,Sweet singing in the choir.

Go tell it on the mountain,Over the hills and everywhere;Go tell it on the mountain,That Jesus Christ is born.

Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.

Wouldn't life be worth the living Wouldn't dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through?

God rest you merry, gentlemen,Let nothing you dismay;Remember Christ our Savior,Was born on Christmas Day.

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.

Adeste, fideles,Laeti triumphantes;Venite, venite in Bethlehem.[O come, all ye faithful,Joyful and triumphant,O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.]

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,Eating a Christmas pie.He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,And said, "What a good boy am I!"

To meet with things newborn: for the Christian, that is the hope that burns brightly at Christmas, and Pentecost, and Easter.

Dear Minerva, You are a monster. I cannot foregive you for what you did in Tropojë last summer. How could you do that? I will never forget it and very soon I am going to kill you. Your life will come to an end in London. This will be your last Christmas!

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

For the children it will always be a lemonade float at the Christmas table as a special treat.