Christmas Quotes

"But that's what Christmas is about, isn't it? The impossible becoming real. An infinite God becoming a fragile human babe. That perfect God making a path for us to come back to Him, and doing it in a way both spectacular and yet so mysterious, so hidden that people could and still do deny it." — Roseanna M. White”

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"Christmas is not a story to be told. It is an event to be declared." — Craig D. Lounsbrough”

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"Christmas is the time for us not to be found wanting but waiting for the Savior in the manger." — Allene vanOirschot Nothing brings back childhood like Christmas. These quotes look back at stockings, snowy mornings and the magic of believing.”

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"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!" — Charles Dickens”

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"Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday." — Gladys Taber”

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"There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." — Erma Bombeck”

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"I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas." — Hillary Scott”

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"I love Christmas. I'm really sentimental about it. My parents made it awesome for us, and we were allowed to be kids for a long time." — Michael Buble”

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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”

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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”

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"Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion." — Ralph W. Sockman”

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"For me growing up, Christmas time was always the most fantastic, exciting time of year, and you'd stay up until three in the morning. You'd hear the parents wrapping in the other room but you knew that also, maybe, they were in collusion with Santa Claus." — Chris Pine”

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"One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that." — Mo Rocca”

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"My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like 'Jack Frost' and 'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer' with my siblings and parents." — Becky G”

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"As I remember my grandfather and those Christmas mornings he gave for a little girl's pleasure, I know that often a big life starts with doing small things." — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni”

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"I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come." — Richard Brautigan”

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"Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance." — Tove Jansson”

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"When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever." — Garry Marshall”

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"My favorite part was when my grandfather and I would make a special trip to Firpo's Bakery for red and green Christmas cookies and fruitcake studded with the sweetest cherries I've ever tasted. Usually Firpo's was too expensive for our slim budget, but Christmas mornings they gave a discount to any children who came in." — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni”

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"Keeping the magic alive can be as simple as going to the mall to sit on Santa's lap or reading special stories on Christmas Eve." — Stephanie Land”

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"Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second." — Dana Goodyear”

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"Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches." — Paul Engle”

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"The small things that make Christmas magical are the things children will remember. It doesn't matter what they open on Christmas morning, I don't remember what was in half the boxes I opened as a kid. What mattered were the decorations, the cookies that were mysteriously eaten, and the stockings that were filled." — Stephanie Land”

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"I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I was like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story,' in that I would get swept up into the anticipation of the holiday, watching the lights go up, hearing the songs in the stores, getting special Christmas issues of comics and all that." — Paul Dini”

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"The theme of 'A Christmas Story' is that you can count on Christmas - that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has that time in the holiday season that they remember." — Marc Platt”

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