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Quotes About Mistletoe

I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.
~ Abe Lemons
Mistletoe, said Kian, leading me to a spot in the center of the garden. He kissed me softly. I hear it means something in your world.
~ Kailin Gow
I wish for magic this season, laughter and fun.I wish for mistletoe kisses-those sparkly ones.
~ Cheri Bauer
Sierra, it's Christmastime. Put a stupid mistletoe over his head and kiss him already!
~ Jay Asher, What Light
Right now your only job is to breathe and feel and…look up." Kat pulled back just enough to see the mistletoe that hung above them. "You planned that." "Me?" He gasped. "Never." Then Hale's lips were on hers and his arms were around her and there were no eggs and no thieves and no lies between them.
~ Ally Carter
Tiny parasites inside you, big parasites outside you, people living from your work even though they stay on the other side of the world, making you do it by the force of laws and guns. Laws like mistletoe!
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
He thought of their kiss—had it really been two days ago? The image of Zac's kiss barreled into his mind. When everyone had filtered into the dining room for cinnamon rolls, Beau had confiscated the mistletoe. If anyone was getting another kiss from Kate, it was going to be him.
~ Denise Hunter
Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.
~ Lauren Willig
Amulets for luck are made of blue beads, dove feathers, mistletoe, wishbones.
~ Alice Hoffman
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!
~ Anonymous
dried the flowers myself. Belladonna, oleander, and mistletoe. Three of my favorites. All of them poisonous … but such lovely colors.
~ Anthony Horowitz
Christmas is not about tinsel and mistletoe or even ornaments and presents, but about what means will we use toward the end of a peace from heaven upon our earth. Or is "peace on earth" but a Christmas ornament taken each year from attic or basement and returned there as soon as possible?
~ Marcus J. Borg
Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red— His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.
~ JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
I am inclined to think that Miss Garrow was right in saying that the world is changed as touching mistletoe boughs. Kissing, I fear, is less innocent now than it used to be when our grandmothers were alive, and we have become more fastidious in our amusements.
~ Anthony Trollope
That battle of the mistletoe had been fought on the morning before Christmas Day, and the Holmeses came on Christmas Eve.
~ Anthony Trollope
The tradition was that with each kiss a berry was picked off the mistletoe. Once the last berry was gone, then there could be no more kissing," Chris revealed as he leaned closer before whispering, "And that's a total shame.
~ Sarah Stein
Come on, Forney.' Novalee, it's a parasite.' But it's a tradition.' It's a parasite! And you expect people to stand under it and kiss?' Yes! it's what people do with mistletoe.
~ Billie Letts
Though we nearly lost everything last month, when the mainframe got possessed by Sumerian demons, and we had to call in a technodruid to exorcise it. I'd never heard language like that before, and even after it was all over, the office still smelled of burning mistletoe for weeks. And I might add that the computer Helpline people were no bloody use at all.
~ Simon R. Green
burnt stubs of candles were stuck to the floor. The candles formed a circle. Nothing appeared to have been taken but the cabinet in which Marepool III was displayed had been broken and the head had been handled. Some candle wax and fragments of mistletoe adhered to it.
~ Susanna Clarke
It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.
~ Terry Pratchett
I'm not particular about being kissed under mistletoe. That being said, I'm not averse to trying it either!
~ Catherine Tresa
Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.
~ Chris Kilham
It's not the Mistletoe Knight that these knights are coming for. It's the girl. Lady Jaclyn." "The girl?" Blaise echoed. "She is rumored to be the fairest in the land. Most of these men have come in hopes of winning the land, not for the castle, but for the woman.
~ Laurel O'Donnell
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly-branch shone on the old oak wall.
~ Thomas Haynes Bayly